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Author:

Heidenreich, Linda, 1964-

Title:

"This land was Mexican once" : histories of resistance from Northern California / by Linda Heidenreich.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiv, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Napa County (Calif.)--Historiography.
Napa County (Calif.)--History--Anecdotes.
Mexican Americans--Napa County--Napa County--History--Anecdotes.
Wappo Indians--Napa County--Napa County--History--Anecdotes.
Women--Napa County--Napa County--History--Anecdotes.
Immigrants--Napa County--Napa County--History--Anecdotes.
Government, Resistance to--Napa County--Napa County--History--Anecdotes.
Napa County (Calif.)--Social conditions--Anecdotes.
Napa County (Calif.)--Race relations--Anecdotes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-241) and index.

Contents:

Precolonial stories/precolonial histories -- Stories of settler-colonizers, and of the colonized -- Source break : Bear Flag narratives -- The Bear Flag incident -- Stories and histories of women and violence in the colonial North -- Source break : the White mind -- Mobilizing linear narratives -- Source break : civilized man -- Raced bodies in White spaces -- Conclusion.

Series:

Chicana matters series

ISBN:

0292716346 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780292716346 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292716338 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780292716339 (cl. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)84838435

LCCN:

2007006355

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)