Introduction: Under the radar: black in New Mexico history / Bruce A. Glasrud
Intimacy and empire: Indian-African interaction in Spanish colonial New Mexico, 1500-1800 / Dedra S. McDonald
African and discrimination in colonial New Mexico: Don Pedro Bautista Pino's startling statements of 1812 in perspective / Jim F. Heath and Frederick M. Nunn
A law that would make caligula blush?: New Mexico Territory's unique slave code, 1859-1861 / Mark J. Stegmaier
African Americans with Confederate troops in West Texas and New Mexico / Martin Hardwick Hall
Cathay Williams: black woman soldier, 1866-1868 / DeAnne Blanton
Civilians and black soldiers in New Mexico Territory, 1866-1900: a cross-cultural experience / Monroe L. Billington
Black communities in New Mexico / Jeff Berg and M.A. Walton
Another white hope bites the dust: the JackJohnson-Jim Flynn heavyweight fight in 1912 / Raymond Wilson
Community building on the border: the role of the 24th Infantry Band at Columbus, New Mexico, 1916-1922 / Horace Daniel Nash
Anita Scott Coleman: New Mexico's "unfinished masterpiece" / Bruce A. Glasrud
New Mexico's black women: establishing perspectives / Maisha Baton
How Albuquerque got its civil rights ordinance / George Long
Between the tracks and the freeway: African Americans in Albuquerque / Roger W. Banks
Haroldie Kent Spriggs and Sammie J. Kent: integrating a white high school in the 1950s / Richard Melzer
The modern civil rights movement in New Mexico, 1955-1975 / George M. Cooper
African American leaders in recent New Mexico politics, 1980-2010 / D. Scott Glasrud and Joshua Merrill.