LEADER 03508nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910820434803321 005 20240313140109.0 010 $a979-88-908457-8-8 010 $a1-4696-3383-3 010 $a1-4696-3384-1 035 $a(CKB)4340000000195403 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001810068 035 $a(OCoLC)1000521535 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse61522 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1120521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10685280 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1120521 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000195403 100 $a20120928d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aArchives of dispossession $erecovering the testimonios of Mexican American herederas, 1848-1960 /$fKaren R. Roybal 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2017 215 $a1 online resource (169 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aGender and American culture 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a1-4696-3382-5 311 $a1-4696-3381-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMexican American women's alternative archive : linking testimonio, memory, and history -- Testimonio in the writings of Mari?a Amparo Ruiz de Burton -- Jovita Gonza?lez stakes a claim in Tejas history -- The not so "New" Mexico : struggle for land, identity, and agency. 330 $a"One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican land owners. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and what existing studies do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. In Archives of Dispossession, Karen Roybal recenters the focus of land dispossession on women, arguing that gender, sometimes more than race, dictated legal concepts of property ownership and individual autonomy. Drawing on a diverse source base - legal land records, personal letters, and literary works - Roybal reveals voices of Mexican women in the Southwest and how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as Indigenous landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonies - their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and sovereignty. Roybal positions these testimonios as an alternate archive that illustrates the myriad ways in which multiple layers of dispossession - and the changes of property ownership in Mexican law - affected the formation of Mexicana identity"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aGender & American culture. 606 $aMexican American women$zSouthwestern States$xHistory 606 $aMexican American women$zSouthwestern States$xHistory$xSources 606 $aMexican Americans$xLand tenure$zSouthwestern States$xHistory 606 $aMexican American women$zSouthwestern States$xEthnic identity 615 0$aMexican American women$xHistory. 615 0$aMexican American women$xHistory$xSources. 615 0$aMexican Americans$xLand tenure$xHistory. 615 0$aMexican American women$xEthnic identity. 676 $a305.48/86872073 676 $a305.4886872073 700 $aRoybal$b Karen R$01605943 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820434803321 996 $aArchives of dispossession$93931457 997 $aUNINA