Anita Huizar-Hernández

Forging Arizona

A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West

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Produktbeschreibung

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.  An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S. Southwest,  this book recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide  are only as stable as the narratives that define them. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 4g
• ISBN-13: 9780813598826
• ISBN-10: 0813598826
• Artikelnr.: 54149851

Autorenporträt

ANITA HUIZAR-HERNÁNDEZ is an assistant professor of border studies in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
            Part I   Inventing the Peralta Land Grant      
1          Counterfeit Narratives: The Peralta Land Grant Archives and the
Forging of the West      
2          Searching for Sofia: Race, Gender, and Authenticity at the 1895
Court of Private Land Claims
3          Southwest Speculation: Newspaper Coverage of the Peralta Land
Grant    
            Part II  (Re)membering the Peralta Land Grant
4          Counterfeit Nostalgia: William Atherton DuPuy's The Baron of the
Colorados (1940)
5          The Baron is Like a Battleground: Samuel Fuller's The Baron of
Arizona (1950)
Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta Land Grant            
Notes
Bibliography  
Index