List of Illustrations

List of Maps

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Lower Rio Grande Border and Its Brick Industry in Anthropological Perspective

PART ONE. Industrial Beginnings and the Transmission of Mexican Brick Culture

2. Brick Culture along the Lower Rio Grande Border in Historical Perspective

3. Four Generations of Maestros Ladrilleros on Both Sides of the Border: The Soto Family

PART TWO. Case Studies of Brickmaking on the Texas Side of the Border: Mexican Brick Culture, the Wetback, and Machinofacture

4. Contrasting South Texas Histories of Mexican Brick Culture: Los Ebanos, Santa Maria, Hidalgo, and McAllen

5. Mexican Brick Culture's Last Stand in Texas: The Harry P. Anderson Plants at Olmito and Relampago

6. The German Connection: Guenther Weiske in Madero

7. The Appropriate Engineering of Mexican Handmolded Brick for the Texas Market: Rudy Nordmeyer in Rio Grande City

PART THREE. A Two-sided Affair: The Rise, Consolidation and Decline of the Mexican Export Industry and the Cross-border Nexus

8. The Take-off, Growth and Decline of Mexican Artisanal Brick Production for Export

9. An Island of Brickmaking on the Rio Bravo: The Terra-Mex Plant at Los Guerra (Miguel Aleman)

10. Intermediaries and Camperos in the Border Brick Industry: Representations and Approximations of a Two-sided Affair

PART FOUR Discourses and Maneuvers in a Time of Crisis: Class and Ethnic Others in a Two-sided Transnational Affair

11. Labor and Capital: A Cross-border Comparison of Business Culture and Views of the Other

12. Building Texas with Brick Hecho a Mano in Mexico: Consumption and Contest for the Market

Appendix. Theory and Method in the Border

Brick Project

Notes

References Cited

Index