...This chapter looks at the significance of New York's Spanish-language press—specifically the weekly newspaper, Pueblos Hispanos: Semanario Progresista (Hispanic Peoples: Progressive Weekly, 1943–44)—exploring how Puerto Ricans employed journalism as a form of cultural and political...

...New Mexico's Anglo businessmen responded an article written by Katharine Fullerton Gerould with typical indignation. They ignored her treatment of Hispanos and took issue instead with her claims of roving outlaws and political graft. Mary Austin's defense of New Mexico's “Spanish colonial” people...

...Jack T. Taylor bought land in the 1960s and began logging in the mountainous area where his land was situated, which historically had been used by the Hispanos who lived on adjoining pieces of property in the vicinity. His logging operation not only interfered with the San Luis residents' common...

... wrote of the culture and heritage of their Hispano ancestors. Her parents came from long-established Hispano families who had been in New Mexico for over 200 years. Her grandparents raised her from the age of four, after her mother died, leaving Fabiola with one brother and two sisters. She attended...

...This chapter addresses the considerable time and energy that Anglos spent racializing themselves. It focuses on bodily comportment and racialization. Rather than having a focus on the supposed inadequacies of the body practices of Indian and Hispano racial others, however, the chapter describes...

...In 1992, during the quincentennial of Columbus’ first voyage to the New World, a controversy broke out in Santa Fe New Mexico over the cathedral’s statue of the Virgin Mary, known ever since the seventeenth-century as La Conquistadora. On one side were self-identified Hispanos who claimed the only...

...This chapter discusses the trials for sexual assault and the embodied racialization of Hispanos. The chapter introduces a broader discussion of elite Hispanos, who were a critical segment of New Mexico's racial order. Because of the presence and the political and economic power of elite Hispanos...

...This chapter examines the bodily comportment in ceremonies and public events in New Mexico. It explained how Anglo newspapers simultaneously racialized the bodily comportment of Indians and Penitentes while at the same time announcing with considerable respect the ceremonies of elite Hispanos...

...This chapter focuses on domesticity and marriage and explore the accommodations forced upon Anglo newcomers by the economic and political strength of Hispano elites. The chapter also tracks an important shift in Anglo racializing projects, one spurred by Anglos' inability to denounce and demonize...

... in Anglos and bodily comportment bodily comportment colonialism and advertising Hispanos and alcohol imperialism newspapers advertising in racialization advertisements for alcohol clothing advertisements for Smith Rosenberg Carroll women and consumer culture humor in newspapers masculinity...

...This 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 book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentieth-century Spanish...

... Martín Valentina Neruda Pablo Pueblos Hispanos Román Armando Argentina Codovilla Victorio Gallardo José Churchill Winston Lamb Leonard Roosevelt Franklin D Santos Rivera Juan Uruguay Gruening Ernest Muñoz Marín Luis Rivera Julia Díaz Luis Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA...

...This chapter investigates the Fiesta de Santa Fe, a festival whose largely Anglo leaders decided in the late 1920s that real villagers, not stage pageantry, should be the main attraction. The vision of a domesticated Hispano folk culture had a powerful effect on Santa Fe's Anglos. Capt. Don Diego...

... systematically favored Anglo challenges to Hispanic land grant claims. This attack on Hispanic land ownership and political power was an unavoidable fact of life among Hispanos in the New Mexico Territory. The need to protect their rights framed every other political issue. This chapter centers on Adelina “Nina...

...With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s came the emergence of a modern and profoundly multicultural New Mexico. Native Americans, working-class Mexicans, elite Hispanos, and black-and-white newcomers all commingled and interacted in the territory in ways that had not been...