Author: Karen R. Roybal
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633833
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. Here, Karen R. Roybal recenters the focus of 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 literature—Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonios—their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and shifts in power. 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.
The National Archives of the United States
Author: Herman J. Viola
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A look at the type of materials located in the National Archives along with photographs of some of the items, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Emancipation Proclamation, and the Homestead Act.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A look at the type of materials located in the National Archives along with photographs of some of the items, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Emancipation Proclamation, and the Homestead Act.
Archives of Dispossession
Author: Karen R. Roybal
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633833
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. Here, Karen R. Roybal recenters the focus of 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 literature—Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonios—their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and shifts in power. 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.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633833
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
One method of American territory expansion in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands was the denial of property rights to Mexican landowners, which led to dispossession. Many historical accounts overlook this colonial impact on Indigenous and Mexican peoples, and existing studies that do tackle this subject tend to privilege the male experience. Here, Karen R. Roybal recenters the focus of 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 literature—Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonios—their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and shifts in power. 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.
The National Archives of the United States
Author: National Archives (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Shadow Archives
Author: Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231550243
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts—including Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth—to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison, and provides a nuanced view of how archival methodology, access, and the power dynamics of acquisitions shape literary history. Shadow Archives argues that the notion of the archive is crucial to our understanding of postwar African American literary history. Cloutier combines his own experiences as a researcher and archivist with a theoretically rich account of the archive to offer a pioneering study of the importance of African American authors’ archival practices and how these shaped their writing. Given the lack of institutions dedicated to the black experience, the novel became an alternative site of historical preservation, a means to ensure both individual legacy and group survival. Such archivism manifests in the work of these authors through evolving lifecycles where documents undergo repurposing, revision, insertion, falsification, transformation, and fictionalization, sometimes across decades. An innovative interdisciplinary consideration of literary papers, Shadow Archives proposes new ways for literary scholars to engage with the archive.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231550243
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts—including Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth—to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison, and provides a nuanced view of how archival methodology, access, and the power dynamics of acquisitions shape literary history. Shadow Archives argues that the notion of the archive is crucial to our understanding of postwar African American literary history. Cloutier combines his own experiences as a researcher and archivist with a theoretically rich account of the archive to offer a pioneering study of the importance of African American authors’ archival practices and how these shaped their writing. Given the lack of institutions dedicated to the black experience, the novel became an alternative site of historical preservation, a means to ensure both individual legacy and group survival. Such archivism manifests in the work of these authors through evolving lifecycles where documents undergo repurposing, revision, insertion, falsification, transformation, and fictionalization, sometimes across decades. An innovative interdisciplinary consideration of literary papers, Shadow Archives proposes new ways for literary scholars to engage with the archive.
National Archives of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive orders
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive orders
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Annual Report of the Archivist of the United States
Author: National Archives (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Guide to the National Archives of the United States
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The National Archives of the United States
Author: National Archives (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Guide to the National Archives of the United States
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description