The essays provide the cultural and historic background to the practice of constructing domestic altars, linking the ancient traditions with modern customs.
President James Monroe had his eye sharply focused on Cuba when in 1823 he forcefully announced the “Monroe Doctrine,” warning European powers that any intervention in the Americas would be deemed an act of aggression that would provoke ...
This book illuminates the career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those who wish to recognize, understand, name, and oppose ...
The author uses marriage to examine the social history of New Mexico between 1500 and 1846
These essays conceptualize racialization as a dynamic and interactive process; group-based racial constructions are formed not only in relation to whiteness, but also in relation to other devalued and marginalized groups.
California Before the Gold Rush Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Richard J. Orsi, California Historical Society ... Robert F. Heizer and Thomas R. Hester, “The Archaeology of Bamert Cave, Amador County, California” (on file at Berkeley: University ...
This is the book to survey lands collapsing and new vistas rising."—Ian F. Haney López, author of Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America "A Field Guide to White Supremacy is as urgent an intervention as ...
For an ethnobotanical bibliography, see Beatrice M. Beck, Ethnobotany of the California Indians, Volume 1.'A Bibliography and Index (Champaign, Illinois: Koeltz Scientific Books, 1994). 16. Michael Moratto, California Archeology ...
This collection represents the perfect balance between cutting-edge scholarship and touchstone essays.
This is the book to survey lands collapsing and new vistas rising."—Ian F. Haney López, author of Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America "A Field Guide to White Supremacy is as urgent an intervention as ...
... Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987), 58. 14. For the history of the formation of the AJA contingent within the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, see Duus, Unlikely Liberators ...
... California, Los Angeles. Hayes-Bautista, D. E., 1993. “Mexicans in Southern California: Societal Enrichment or Wasted Opportunity?” In The California-Mexico Connection. Eds. A. F. Lowenthal and K. Burgess. Stanford, Calif: Stanford ...
Exploring the past, present, and future of ethnic Mexicans in California
... Rancho Sespe , which embraced six square leagues of land , " un poco mas o menos , " along the Santa Clara River , some thirty miles east of Mission San Buenaventura . Under Mexican law , a petition for land ... Rancho Sespe, ca 1829.
The Twelve essays in this volume explore the functions of a range of cultural traditions, including those of African Americans, Hispanics, Filipinos, West Indians, rural whites, and contemporary urban residents...