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Forging Arizona : A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West / Anita Huizar-Hernández.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in thePublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (162 p.) : 9Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813598819
  • 9780813598857
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 343.791/0253
LOC classification:
  • KFA2855
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim ownership of a substantial portion of the newly-acquired Southwestern territories. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including court records, newspapers, fiction, and film, Huizar-Hernández argues that the creation, collapse, and eventual forgetting of Reavis's scam reveal the mechanisms by which narratives, real and imaginary, forge borders. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S Southwest border, 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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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

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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 James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim ownership of a substantial portion of the newly-acquired Southwestern territories. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including court records, newspapers, fiction, and film, Huizar-Hernández argues that the creation, collapse, and eventual forgetting of Reavis's scam reveal the mechanisms by which narratives, real and imaginary, forge borders. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S Southwest border, 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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