The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than
grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a
group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish
colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African Americans,
Chinese immigrants, and Euro Americans. Napa's history clearly is
one of co-existence; yet, its schoolbooks tell a linear story that
climaxes with the arrival of Euro Americans. In "This Land was
Mexican Once," Linda Heidenreich excavates Napa's subaltern voices
and histories to tell a complex, textured local history with
important implications for the larger American West, as well.
Heidenreich is part of a new generation of scholars who are
challenging not only the old, Euro-American depiction of
California, but also the linear method of historical
storytelling--a method that inevitably favors the last man writing.
She first maps the overlapping histories that comprise Napa's past,
then examines how the current version came to dominate--or even
erase--earlier events. So while history, in Heidenreich's words,
may be "the stuff of nation-building," it can also be "the stuff of
resistance." Chapters are interspersed with "source breaks"--raw
primary sources that speak for themselves and interrupt the linear,
Euro-American telling of Napa's history. Such an inclusive approach
inherently acknowledges the connections Napa's peoples have to the
rest of the region, for the linear history that marginalizes
minorities is not unique to Napa. Latinos, for instance, have
populated the American West for centuries, and are still shaping
its future. In the end, "This Land was Mexican Once" is more than
the story of Napa, it is amultidimensional model for reflecting a
multicultural past.
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