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

Informationen zum Autor ANITA HUIZAR-HERNÁNDEZ is an assistant professor of border studies in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Klappentext An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, 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. Zusammenfassung An important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest! 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Anita Huizar-Hernandez, Anita Huizar-Hernández
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780813598819
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-9881-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures; Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law