{"id":4456,"date":"2010-01-11T01:27:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T01:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:50:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:50:56","slug":"married-to-a-daughter-of-the-land-spanish-mexican-women-and-interethnic-marriage-in-california-1820-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unpress.nevada.edu\/books\/?isbn=9780874177787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unpress.nevada.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Nevada Press<br \/>\n<\/a>2007<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-87417-697-1<br \/>\nHardcover Pages: 272<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-87417-778-7<br \/>\nPaperback Pages: 280<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.unlv.edu\/faculty\/raquel_casas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mar\u00eda Raqu\u00e9l Casas<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unpress.nevada.edu\/books\/?isbn=9780874177787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tmm.chicagodistributioncenter.com\/IsbnImages\/9780874177787.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian Mar\u00eda Raqu\u00e9l Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California. She finds that, far from being pawns in a male-dominated society, Californianas of all classes were often active and determined creators of their own destinies, finding ways to choose their mates, to leave unsatisfactory marriages, and to maintain themselves economically. Using a wide range of sources in English and Spanish, Casas unveils a picture of women\u2019s lives in these critical decades of California\u2019s history. She shows how many Spanish-Mexican women negotiated the precarious boundaries of gender and race to choose Euro-American husbands, and what this intermarriage meant to the individuals involved and to the larger multiracial society evolving from California\u2019s rich Hispanic and Indian past. Casas\u2019s discussion ranges from California\u2019s burgeoning economy to the intimacies of private households and ethnically mixed families.\u00a0 Here we discover the actions of real women of all classes as they shaped their own identities. <em>Married to a Daughter of the Land<\/em> is a significant and fascinating contribution to the history of women in the American West and to our understanding of the complex role of gender, race, and class in the Borderlands of the Southwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,14646,8,17,20,25],"tags":[455,3875,1763,259,1764],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","category-women","tag-california","tag-maria-casas","tag-maria-raquel-casas","tag-marriage","tag-university-of-nevada-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59915,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/59915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}