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Book Review

Racial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande. By James N. Leiker. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xiv + 214 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

     Racial Borders depicts roles played by African American soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalries and 24th and 25th Infantries along the Rio Grande during 1866–1917. James Leiker uses the theme of racial borders to mean "both the Rio Grande and the construction of racial and national identities through the enforcement of their boundaries" (p. 180). Enforcement of that boundary between Mexico and the United States during that time became the responsibility of black soldiers stationed there. Their efforts changed many people's thinking of the area from a frontier mentality to a border one. . . .

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