TY  - GEN
T1  - Forging Arizona : a History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West.
T2  - Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in The Ser.
A1  - Huizar-Hernández, Anita
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1120696739
AB  - 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.
OP  - 181
CN  - KFA2855
SN  - 0813598850
SN  - 9780813598857
SN  - 9780813598826
SN  - 0813598826
SN  - 9780813598819
SN  - 0813598818
KW  - Reavis, James Addison, : 1843-1914 : Claims vs. United States.
KW  - United States. : Court of Private Land Claims.
KW  - Reavis, James Addison, : 1843-1914
KW  - United States. : Court of Private Land Claims
KW  - Land grants : Law and legislation : Arizona.
KW  - Land tenure : Law and legislation : Arizona.
KW  - Fraud : Arizona : History.
KW  - Swindlers and swindling : West (U.S.)
KW  - West (U.S.) : Race relations : History.
KW  - Arizona : History : To 1912.
KW  - Fraude : Arizona : Histoire.
KW  - Arizona : Histoire : Jusqu'à 1912.
KW  - États-Unis (Ouest) : Relations raciales : Histoire.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Fraud
KW  - Land grants : Law and legislation
KW  - Land tenure : Law and legislation
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Arizona
KW  - West United States
KW  - To 1912
KW  - History
ER  -