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UNINA9910467899803321 |
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Autore |
Roybal Karen R |
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Titolo |
Archives of dispossession [[electronic resource] ] : recovering the testimonios of Mexican American herederas, 1848-1960 / / Karen R. Roybal |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2017 |
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1-4696-3383-3 |
1-4696-3384-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Gender and American culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mexican American women - Southwestern States - History |
Mexican American women - Southwestern States - History - Sources |
Mexican Americans - Land tenure - Southwestern States - History |
Mexican American women - Southwestern States - Ethnic identity |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Mexican American women's alternative archive : linking testimonio, memory, and history -- Testimonio in the writings of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton -- Jovita González stakes a claim in Tejas history -- The not so "New" Mexico : struggle for land, identity, and agency. |
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"One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican land owners. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and what existing studies do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. In Archives of Dispossession, Karen Roybal recenters the focus of land dispossession on women, arguing that gender, sometimes more than race, dictated legal concepts of property ownership and individual autonomy. Drawing on a diverse source base - legal land records, personal letters, and literary works - Roybal reveals voices of Mexican women in the Southwest and how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as Indigenous landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonies - their stories focusing on inheritance, |
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