This Land Was Mexican Once Histories of Resistance from Northern California

Name: This Land Was Mexican Once Histories of Resistance from Northern California
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ISBN: 9780292716346

ISBN-10: 0292716346

ISBN-13: 9780292716346

Edition: 2007

Authors: Linda Heidenreich

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The territory of Napa County, California, contains more than grapevines. The deepest roots belong to Wappo-speaking peoples, a group whose history has since been buried by the stories of Spanish colonizers, Californios (today's Latinos), African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Euro Americans. Napa's history clearly is one of co-existence; yet, its schoolbooks tell a linear story that climaxes with the arrival of Euro Americans. In "This Land was Mexican Once," Linda Heidenreich excavates Napa's subaltern voices and histories to tell a complex, textured local history with important implications for the larger American West, as well. Heidenreich is part of a new generation of scholars who…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.880



Introduction



Precolonial Stories/Precolonial Histories



Stories of Settler-Colonizers, and of the Colonized Source Break: Bear Flag Narratives



The Bear Flag Incident



Stories and Histories of Women and Violence in the Colonial North - Source Break: The White Mind



Mobilizing Linear Narratives - Source Break: Civilized Man



Raced Bodies in White SpacesConclusion