The Spanish Redemption :Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico’s Upper Rio Grande
The Spanish Redemption :Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico’s Upper Rio Grande
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8 March, 2002
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8 March, 2002
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Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentieth-century Spanish heritage owes as much to the coming of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1880 as to the first Spanish colonial campaign of 1598. As the railroad brought capital and migrants into the region, Anglos posed an unprecedented challenge to Hispano wealth and political power. Yet unlike their counterparts in California and Texas, the Anglo newcomers could not wholly displace their Spanish-speaking rivals. Nor could they segregate themselves or the upper Rio Grande from the image, well-known throughout the Southwest, of the disreputable Mexican. Instead, prominent Anglos and Hispanos found common cause in transcending the region's Mexican character. Turning to colonial symbols of the conquistador, the Franciscan missionary, and the humble Spanish settler, they recast northern New Mexico and its people.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780520229716 |
| ISBN10 | 0520229711 |
| Number Of Pages | 354 |
| Item Weight | 680 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 28 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | University of California Press |
| Format | hardback |
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"The Spanish Redemption contributes an extremely important chapter to the burgeoning literature on the construction of whiteness in the United States, and to our understanding of the shifting and complicated relationship between ethnicity and class and provides a concrete example of how culture can be used to shape political and economic identities."-Ramon Gutierrez, author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away
Author's Bio
Charles Montgomery is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida.