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West of sex : making Mexican America, 1900-1930 / Pablo Mitchell.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Pablo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexicans--Sexual behavior--Southwest, New--History--20th century.
- Mexicans.
- Trials (Sex crimes)--Southwest, New--Cases.
- Trials (Sex crimes).
- Sex crimes--Southwest, New--History--20th century.
- Sex crimes.
- Sex--Social aspects--United States.
- Sex.
- Mexicans--Southwest, New--Social conditions--20th century.
- Marginality, Social--Southwest, New--History--20th century.
- Marginality, Social.
- Southwest, New--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Southwest, New.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (165 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In West of Sex, Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide the first coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century, and a truly revelatory look at sexual identity in the borderlands. As Mexicans faced a rising tide of racial intolerance in the American West, some found cracks in the legal system that enabled them to assert their rights as full citizens, despite institutional hostility. In these chapters, Mitchell offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of ethnicity and power in the United States, placing ordinary Mexican women and men at the center of the story of American sex, colonialism, and belonging. Other chapters discuss topics like prostitution, same-sex intimacy, sexual violence, interracial romance, and marriage with an impressive level of detail and complexity. Written in vivid and accessible prose, West of Sex offers readers a new vision of sex and race in American history.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- ONE. Introduction
- TWO. Colonial Convictions
- THREE. Home Fires and Domesticity
- FOUR. Uncommon Women and Prostitution
- FIVE. Sexual Borderlands
- SIX. Courtship and the Courts
- CONCLUSION. From the Outskirts of Citizenship
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613530134
- 9781280126277
- 1280126272
- 9780226532738
- 0226532739
- OCLC:
- 780446417
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