Synopses & Reviews
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On the Borders of Love and Power explores the intimate intersections of race, gender, and empire among families in the American West. The editors have gathered provocative essays by the best-known historians of family and gender in the region. This volume captures the breadth and depth of contemporary research in the field and will influence scholars for years to come.and#8221;and#151;Albert L. Hurtado, author of
Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands"This important book, full of fine scholarship, explores the history of the American West through intimate and richly rendered portraits of kinship and family relations. Emphasizing the centrality of cross-cultural encounters and the and#147;micro-politicsand#8221; of family formation within the broader context of colonial and#147;macro-politicsand#8221; and nation building, these compelling and accessible essays provide a deeply textured understanding of the history of the region. This volume will certainly inspire historians of the Western United States, as well as those of colonialism, empire, and national expansion in other regions, to focus more closely on these intimate realms in their own research."and#151;James F. Brooks, president, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, and author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
Synopsis
Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control.
About the Author
David Wallace Adams is Professor of History at Cleveland State University and author of Education for Extinction. Crista DeLuzio is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University and author of Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio
PART ONE. DIVERSE FAMILIES AND RACIAL HIERARCHY
1. Breaking and Remaking Families: The Fostering and Adoption of Native American Children in Non-Native Families in the American West, 1880and#150;1940
Margaret Jacobs
2. Becoming Comanches: Patterns of Captive Incorporation into Comanche Kinship Networks, 1820and#150;1875
Joaquand#237;n Rivaya-Martand#237;nez
3. and#147;Seeking the Incalculable Benefit of a Faithful, Patient Man and Wifeand#8221;: Families in the Federal Indian Service, 1880and#150;1925
Cathleen D. Cahill
4. Hard Choices: Mixed-Race Families and Strategies of Acculturation in the U.S. West after 1848
Anne F. Hyde
PART TWO. LAW, ORDER, AND THE REGULATION OF FAMILY LIFE
5. Family and Kinship in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands: A Cultural Account
Ramand#243;n A. Gutiand#233;rrez
6. Love, Honor, and the Power of Law: Probating the and#193;vila Estate in Frontier California
Donna C. Schuele
7. and#147;Who has a greater job than a mother?and#8221; Defining Mexican Motherhood on the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Early Twentieth Century
Monica Perales
8. Borderlands/La Familia: Mexicans, Homes, and Colonialism in the Early Twentieth-Century Southwest
Pablo Mitchell
PART THREE. BORDERLAND CULTURES AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
9. Intimate Ties: Marriage, Families, and Kinship in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities
Tracy Brown
10. The Paradox of Kinship: Native-Catholic Communities in Alta California, 1769and#150;1840s
Erika Pand#233;rez
11. Territorial Bonds: Indenture and Affection in Intercultural Arizona, 1864and#150;1894
Katrina Jagodinsky
12. Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War: and#147;The Family,and#8221; and#147;The West,and#8221; and Their Chroniclers
Susan Lee Johnson
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index