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Archives of Dispossession - Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960

English · Hardback

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One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. Here, Karen R. Roybal recenters the focus of dispossession on women, arguing that gender, sometimes more than race, dictated legal concepts of property ownership and individual autonomy. Drawing on a diverse source base?legal land records, personal letters, and literature?Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonios?their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and shifts in power. Roybal positions these testimonios as an alternate archive that illustrates the myriad ways in which multiple layers of dispossession?and the changes of property ownership in Mexican law?affected the formation of Mexicana identity.

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Karen R. Roybal is assistant professor of Southwest studies at Colorado College.

Summary

Drawing on a diverse source base - legal land records, personal letters, and literature - Karen Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonios - their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and shifts in power.

Product details

Authors Karen R. Roybal
Publisher University Of North Carolina
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2017
 
EAN 9781469633817
ISBN 978-1-4696-3381-7
No. of pages 192
Series Gender and American Culture
Gender and American Culture (H
Gender and American Culture
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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