{"product_id":"colonial-intimacies-interethnic-kinship-sexuality-and-marriage-in-southern-california-1769-1885-volume-5-hardcover","title":"Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769-1885 Volume 5 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErika Perez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gem of historical scholarship \"--\u003cb\u003eVicki L. Ruiz, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eFrom Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How do intimate relationships reveal, reflect, enable, or enact the social and political dimensions of imperial projects? In particular, how did colonial relations in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century southern California implicate sexuality, marriage, and kinship ties? In \u003ci\u003eColonial Intimacies, \u003c\/i\u003e Erika P rez probes everyday relationships, encounters, and interactions to show how intimate choices about marriage, social networks, and godparentage were embedded in larger geopolitical concerns. Her work reveals, through the lens of social and familial intimacy, subtle tools of conquest and acts of resistance and accommodation among indigenous peoples, Spanish-Mexican settlers, Franciscan missionaries, and European and Anglo-American merchants. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Concentrating on Catholic conversion, \u003ci\u003ecompadrazgo \u003c\/i\u003e(baptismal sponsorship that often forged interethnic relations), and intermarriage, P rez examines the ways indigenous and Spanish-Mexican women helped shape communities and sustained their culture. She uncovers an unexpected fluidity in Californian society--shaped by race, class, gender, religion, and kinship--that persisted through the colony's transition from Spanish to American rule. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eColonial Intimacies\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the offspring of interethnic couples and their strategies for coping with colonial rule and negotiating racial and cultural identities. P rez argues that these sons and daughters experienced conquest in different ways tied directly to their gender, and in turn faced different options in terms of marriage partners, economic status, social networks, and expressions of biculturality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Offering a more nuanced understanding of the colonial experience, \u003ci\u003eColonial Intimacies \u003c\/i\u003eexposes the personal ties that undergirded imperial relationships in Spanish, Mexican, and early American California.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757664338208,"sku":"9780806159041","price":81.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/be257e04abc2fe24f840141785fe51cb.webp?v=1780108222","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/colonial-intimacies-interethnic-kinship-sexuality-and-marriage-in-southern-california-1769-1885-volume-5-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}