A major goal of the New Western History is to chronicle the vast
diversity of western experience. In this pathbreaking anthology,
coeditors Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage-who brought us "The
Women's West in 1987"-meet that challenge by bringing together
twenty-nine essays that present women of all races as actors in
their own lives and in the history of the American West and locate
them in a framework that connects gender, race, and class.
In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range
offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men.
Buffalo roamed, deer and antelope played, and women's voices were
never heard. Writing the Range allows us to hear many long-silenced
women: Spanish-Mexican settlers and American Indians on New Spain's
northern frontiers; Chinese, Basque, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese,
Slavic, and Irish immigrants; film stars Dolores del Rio and Lupe
Velez; Navajos and African Americans who moved to western cities
during World War II; and the activist Mothers of East Los Angeles,
who organized to resist environmental dangers to their
community.
A valuable introduction to the rapidly changing field of western
history, Writing the Range explains clearly how race, class, and
culture are constructed and connected. The first section examines
issues raised by more than a decade of multicultural western
women's histories; following are six chronological sections
spanning four centures. Each section offers a short introduction
connecting is essays and placing them in analytic and historical
perspective. Clearly written and accessible, Writing the Range
makes a major contribution in ethnic history, women's history, and
interpretations of the American West.
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