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