Sanctioning matrimony : western expansion and interethnic marriage in the Arizona borderlands /

Sanctioning matrimony : western expansion and interethnic marriage in the Arizona borderlands /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Acosta, Sal, author.
Imprint:	Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016. ©2016
Description:	xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Interracial marriage -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 19th century. Interracial marriage -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century. Mexican Americans -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Mexican Americans -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Social classes -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 19th century. Social classes -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century. Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 19th century. Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century. Miscegenation -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 19th century. Miscegenation -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century. Interracial marriage. Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Miscegenation. Social classes. Arizona -- Tucson. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10539747

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ISBN:	9780816532377 0816532370
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book examines intermarriage among Mexicans in the Tucson area between 1860 and 1930, shifting the focus away from marriages by the landed elite and onto the working class"--Provided by publisher.

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Summary:	Marriage, divorce, birth, baptism, and census records are the essential records of a community. Through them we see who marries, who divorces, and how many children are born. Sal Acosta has studied a broad base of these vital records to produce the largest quantitative study of intermarriage of any group in the West. Sanctioning Matrimony examines intermarriage in the Tucson area between 1860 and 1930. Unlike previous studies on intermarriage, this book examines not only intermarriages of Mexicans with whites but also their unions with blacks and Chinese.<br> <br> <br> <br> Following the Treaty of Mesilla (1853), interethnic relationships played a significant part in the Southwest. Acosta provides previously unseen archival research on the scope and tenor of interracial marriages in Arizona. Contending that scholarship on intermarriage has focused on the upper classes, Acosta takes us into the world of the working and lower classes and illuminates how church and state shaped the behavior of participants in interracial unions.<br> <br> <br> <br> Marriage practices in Tucson reveal that Mexican women were pivotal in shaping family and social life between 1854 and 1930. Virtually all intermarriages before 1900 were, according to Acosta, between Mexican women and white men, or between Mexican women and blacks or Chinese until the 1920s, illustrating the importance of these women during the transformation of Tucson from a Mexican pueblo to an American town.<br> <br> <br> <br> Acosta's deep analysis of vital records, census data, and miscegenation laws in Arizona demonstrates how interethnic relationships benefited from and extended the racial fluidity of the Arizona borderlands.
Physical Description:	xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780816532377 0816532370