A masterfully written study, alert to the operation of space and power in the dynamics of race, nation, and identity. The author captures historical moments and debates with elegance, staging insightful interventions in established narratives.--Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts There's nothing more American than the cowboy and more Mexican than the charro. With great imagination and meticulous research, Laura Barraclough shows what the intersection between the two reveals about the shifting grounds of U.S./Mexican ethnic masculinity and nationalism from the 1920s to the present.--Sarah Deutsch, author of Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 This remarkable book moves from California to Colorado to Texas, and from the 1940s to the present, to reconceptualize ethnic Mexican history, urban and rural geographies, and the ways that we think about class and racial formations, colonial legacies, masculinity and gender expression, debates about animal welfare and immigrant rights, and more.--Stephen J. Pitti, author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans