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Forging Arizona : a History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West.

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 name...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huizar-Hernández, Anita
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2019.
Colección:Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in The Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; 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 GrantAcknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author