Native Migrations : The First Footsteps -- The First Colonization : Spanish Settlement of the Southwest -- A Culture Interrupted : Mexico Before the American Invasion -- Land Grabs and Invasions : The Alamo and the Mexican American War -- The Anglos Take Over : The Trauma of the Second Conquest -- Mexican Americans and the Civil War : The Other Underground Railroad -- Railroading the Borderlands -- The U.S. Borderlands and the Mexican Revolution -- The Other Side of the Mexican Revolution -- The Ethnic Cleansing of Brown America -- Mexican Americans during World War II -- The Chicano Movement -- The Hispanic Decade -- The New World Border : One Wall Comes Down, Another Goes Up -- The Border Becomes "Ground Zero" -- Today's Truths : An Unwillingness to Disappear.