On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
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Abstract
On the Borders of Love and Power explores relationships between family life and larger structures of social and political power in the intercultural American Southwest from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. The essays document a range of ways in which various ethnocultural groups, particularly Anglo-Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics, construed and experienced family and kinship relations in particular times and places in the history of the Southwest, and they demonstrate that when these peoples met, conflicts and negotiations over family life figured prominently in relation to larger struggles among individuals and groups for conquest and control, as well as for identity, dignity, autonomy, belonging, and survival. These essays attest that American families have been characterized by greater diversity and have been interconnected in more complicated ways than longstanding idealizations of “the traditional family” have allowed, offering insights into the workings of the relationships between love and power in our own time.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part One Diverse Families and Racial Hierarchy
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Breaking and Remaking Families: The Fostering and Adoption of Native American Children in Non-Native Families in the American West, 1880–1940
Margaret Jacobs
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Becoming Comanches: Patterns of Captive Incorporation into Comanche Kinship Networks, 1820–1875
Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
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“Seeking the Incalculable Benefit of a Faithful, Patient Man and Wife”: Families in the Federal Indian Service, 1880–1925
Cathleen D. Cahill
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Hard Choices: Mixed-Race Families and Strategies of Acculturation in the U.S. West after 1848
Anne F. Hyde
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Breaking and Remaking Families: The Fostering and Adoption of Native American Children in Non-Native Families in the American West, 1880–1940
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Part Two Law, Order, and the Regulation of Family Life
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Family and Kinship in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands: A Cultural Account
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
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Love, Honor, and the Power of Law: Probating the Ávila Estate in Frontier California
Donna C. Schuele
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“Who has a greater job than a mother?”: Defining Mexican Motherhood on the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Early Twentieth Century
Monica Perales
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Borderlands / La Familia: Mexicans, Homes, and Colonialism in the Early Twentieth-Century Southwest
Pablo Mitchell
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Family and Kinship in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands: A Cultural Account
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Part Three Borderland Cultures and Family Relationships
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Intimate Ties: Marriage, Families, and Kinship in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities
Tracy Brown
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The Paradox of Kinship: Native-Catholic Communities in Alta California, 1769–1840s
Erika Pérez
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Territorial Bonds: Indenture and Affection in Intercultural Arizona, 1864–1894
Katrina Jagodinsky
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Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War: “The Family,” “The West,” and Their Chroniclers
Susan Lee Johnson
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Intimate Ties: Marriage, Families, and Kinship in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities
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End Matter
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