Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West
(Part of the Latinidad Series)
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In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813598818
ISBN13:9780813598819
Release Date:April 2019
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:180 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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