David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780520272385
- eISBN:
- 9780520951341
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520272385.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Family History
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 ...
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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.Less
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.
