This land was Mexican once
Subtitle: histories of resistance from Northern California
By: by Linda Heidenreich.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Chicana matters series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Austin, TX
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292716339; 9780292716346
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- California -- Napa County -- History -- Anecdotes.; Wappo Indians -- California -- Napa County -- History -- Anecdotes.; Women -- California -- Napa County -- History -- Anecdotes.; Immigrants -- California -- Napa County -- History -- Anecdotes.; Government, Resistance to -- California -- Napa County -- History -- Anecdotes.; Napa County (Calif.) -- Historiography.; Napa County (Calif.) -- History -- Anecdotes.; Napa County (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes.; Napa County (Calif.) -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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.