Co-sponsored by
The Center
for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico
Institute for the Study of the American West
at the Autry National Center
Announcing the 2009-10 Annual Public Symposium
Co-sponsored by
The Center
for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico
Institute for the Study of the American West
at the Autry National Center
The William P. Clements
Center for Southwest Studies at Southern
Methodist University
On the Borders of Love and Power:
Families
and Kinship in the Intercultural American West
Saturday, February 27, 2010
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall, Southern Methodist University
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
After an initial meeting and public program held in the fall at the
University of New Mexico,
participants will gather at
SMU
on Saturday, February 27, 2010 to present their revised papers. Both symposia
explore the relationship between family life and larger structures of social and
political power in the history of the West. Scholars will examine how meanings
and experiences of family life have been shaped by the imperatives of economic,
social, and political relations in the West. Conversely, they will interrogate
the role the family has played in constructing, reproducing, mediating, or
contesting social order and power dynamics in the West. Their final essays will
be published as a book for course adoption as well as for the general public.
Registration information for the SMU symposium will be posted on this site in November 2009.
Symposium Co-organizers:
Crista DeLuzio,
Southern Methodist
University
David Wallace Adams,
Cleveland State University
Image from Alexander Gardner’s Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad :
Route of the 35th Parallel, 1867. Courtesy of the DeGolyer Library, SMU.
Participants
include:
Tracy Brown,
Central Michigan
University
“‘He Had Promised to Treat Her with Love and Tenderness but in All of This He
Had Failed’: Coupling and Uncoupling in Eighteenth Century Pueblo Communities”
The 1773 murder of a Tesuque Pueblo man by his Cochiti wife and mother-in-law is a springboard for examining conflicting definitions of kinship and marriage obligations among Pueblo cultures – a conflict aggravated by Spanish colonization.
Cathleen D. Cahill,
University of
New Mexico
“‘Seeking the Incalculable Benefit of a Faithful, Patient Man and Wife’:' Married
Employees in the Federal Indian Service”
How the Indian Service used an
idealized family model to accomplish the transformation of household relations
among Native Americans.
Ramón Gutiérrez,
University
of Chicago
“Kinship, Family and Nation in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands: A Cultural
Approach”
Examines the various and complicated meanings of family and kinship
in three historical-cultural settings: Pueblo Indians’ notions of relationship;
Indian slavery and kinship in the Hispanic Southwest; and Hispanic-Catholic
traditions of compadrazgo.
Anne Hyde,
Colorado College
“Considering Our Children: Mixed-Race Family Strategies in the Post-1848 West”
Paper asks the questions: What factors went into the decision-making of
mixed-race couples regarding the upbringing of their children in the wake of
American conquest and nation-building, and what were the consequences for their
children?
Margaret Jacobs,
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
“Breaking and Remaking Families:
The Fostering and Adoption of Native American Children in Non-Native Families in
the American West”
Examines the history of non-native Indian child adoption
until the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act from the multiple perspectives of
adopting families, native communities, and the children themselves.
Katrina Jagodinsky,
University of Arizona
“Territorial Bonds: Fictive Kinship and Indian Child Labor in Arizona,
1864-1894”
Explores how under the terms of the Arizona Territory’s “Howell
Act” families in the region incorporated indentured Indian children into their
households, in the process blurring the boundaries between kinship, race, labor
exploitation, and intimacy.
Susan Lee Johnson,
University of Wisconsin,
Madison
“A Traffic in Men: The Old Maid, the Housewife, and Their Great Westerner”
Explores the complicated relationship between two twentieth century white women
historians and their subject matter, Kit Carson, including his marriages to
Singing Grass and Josepha Jaramillo.
Pablo Mitchell,
Oberlin
College
“Borderlands/La Familia: Latina/o
Homes and Racial Order in the Early Twentieth Century”
Using legal documents,
including trial transcripts, the paper will examine the efforts by Latina/os to
defend the legitimacy of their home lives in the face of widespread negatives
depictions.
Monica Perales,
University of Houston
“‘Who Has a Greater Job than a Mother?”
Defining Mexican Motherhood on the
U.S.-Mexico Border in the 1920s and 1930s. Explores the multiple meanings which
Mexican women and men ascribed to motherhood.
Erika Pérez,
University of California, Los Angeles
“The Paradox of Compadrazgo: Kinship and Native Communities in Alta
California, 1769-1885”
How California native peoples adopted the
Hispanic/Catholic concept of compadrazgo as an adaptive strategy for
survival and community reconstitution.
Joaquín
Rivaya-Martinez, Texas State University,
San Marcos
“Becoming Comanches: The Incorporation of Outsiders into Comanche Families
and Kinship Networks, 1820-1900”
Examines how Comanche conceptions of family
and kinship both shaped and were shaped by the captive trade.
Donna C. Schuele,
University of California, Irvine
“At the Boundaries of Legal Culture: Californio Families and the American
Probate System, 1850-1878”
How the triumph of the Anglo-American legal system
over the Mexican family-based legal system impacted estate settlement to the
detriment of both large rancho holdings and widows’ economic position.
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