Forging Arizona : a History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West.
In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist name...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
2019.
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| سلاسل: | Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in The Ser.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvscxs6q |
| الملخص: | In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim ownership of a substantial portion of the newly-acquired Southwestern territories. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including court records, newspapers, fiction, and film, Huizar-Hernández argues that the creation, collapse, and eventual forgetting of Reavis's scam reveal the mechanisms by which narratives, real and imaginary, forge borders. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S Southwest border, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (181 pages) |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-155) and index. |
| ردمك: | 0813598850 9780813598857 9780813598826 0813598826 9780813598819 0813598818 |