On the Borders of Love and Power : Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest.
Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for co...
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University of California Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Diverse Families and Racial Hierarchy; 1. Breaking and Remaking Families: The Fostering and Adoption of Native American Children in Non-Native Families in the American West, 1880-1940; 2. Becoming Comanches: Patterns of Captive Incorporation into Comanche Kinship Networks, 1820-1875; 3. "Seeking the Incalculable Benefit of a Faithful, Patient Man and Wife": Families in the Federal Indian Service, 1880-1925.
- 4. Hard Choices: Mixed-Race Families and Strategies of Acculturation in the U.S. West after 1848Part Two. Law, Order, and the Regulation of Family Life; 5. Family and Kinship in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands: A Cultural Account; 6. Love, Honor, and the Power of Law: Probating the Ávila Estate in Frontier California; 7. "Who has a greater job than a mother?" Defining Mexican Motherhood on the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Early Twentieth Century; 8. Borderlands / La Familia: Mexicans, Homes, and Colonialism in the Early Twentieth-Century Southwest.
- Part Three. Borderland Cultures and Family Relationships9. Intimate Ties: Marriage, Families, and Kinship in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities; 10. The Paradox of Kinship: Native-Catholic Communities in Alta California, 1769-1840s; 11. Territorial Bonds: Indenture and Affection in Intercultural Arizona, 1864-1894; 12. Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War: "The Family," "The West," and Their Chroniclers; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index.
