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Forging Arizona - A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,312
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Forging Arizona - A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West (Hardcover): Anita Huizar-Hernandez

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

Anita Huizar-Hernandez

Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States

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In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernandez 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, Anita Huizar-Hernandez 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 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.

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Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Release date: April 2019
Authors: Anita Huizar-Hernandez
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9882-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of other lands
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LSN: 0-8135-9882-6
Barcode: 9780813598826

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