Archives of dispossession : recovering the testimonios of Mexican American herederas, 1848-1960 / Karen R. Roybal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roybal, Karen R.

Series:

Gender & American culture.

Gender and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican American women--Southwestern States--History.

Mexican American women.

Mexican American women--Southwestern States--History--Sources.

Mexican Americans--Land tenure--Southwestern States--History.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican American women--Southwestern States--Ethnic identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2017.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908457-7-1

979-88-908457-8-8

1-4696-3383-3

1-4696-3384-1

OCLC:

1000521535