Forging Arizona : : A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West / / Anita Huizar-Hernández.
In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (162 p.) :; 9 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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 Baron of the Colorados (1940)
- 5. The Baron Is like a Battleground: Samuel Fuller's Baron of Arizona (1950
- Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta Land Grant
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author