Books in the Race and Ethnicity in the American West series

A study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. It charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through an exploration of novels, histories, autobiographies, science fiction, mysteries, formula westerns, melodramas, experimental theater, political essay, and rap music and film.

Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas. This biography traces Reeves from his days of slavery to his soldiering in the Civil War battles of the Trans-Mississippi Theater to his career as a deputy US marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Tells the story of Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale, two of the most influential black activists of the post-World War II American West, and in so doing, supplies a chapter in the history of the civil rights movement, American race relations, African Americans, and the American West.

Blackfoot country was a key site of Canadian and American efforts to shape their nations and national identities. This book explores the uneven way in which the borderlands were superimposed on Blackfoot country in order to divide a previously cohesive region in the late nineteenth century.

A social, cultural, and economic history of the Mexican and Mexican American community in agricultural California, focusing on the community of Oxnard.