Anita Huizar-Hernández

Forging Arizona

A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780813598819
• ISBN-10: 0813598818
• Artikelnr.: 54700595

Autorenporträt

ANITA HUIZAR-HERNÁNDEZ is an assistant professor of border studies in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
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 The Baron of the
Colorados (1940)
5          The Baron is Like a Battleground: Samuel Fuller's The Baron of
Arizona (1950)
Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta Land Grant            
Notes
Bibliography  
Index