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The 2009-10 Annual Public Symposium
 On
the Borders of Love and Power:
Families and Kinship in
the Intercultural American West
Held
Saturday, February 27, 2010 on the campus of
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas.
In the U.S.
West the history of the family includes stories of
Comanche warriors, Pueblo Indian women, Catholic
priests, children of the fur trade, Mexican mothers, and
Washington policy makers. These and other topics are
part of the symposium's exploration of the multiple ways
in which women, men, and children, across time and
space, were linked by bonds of love, power, and
obligation.
After
an initial meeting and public program held in the fall
at the University of New
Mexico,
participants gathered at
SMU
on Saturday, February 27, 2010 to present their revised
papers. Their final essays were published by the
University of California Press
for course adoption as well as for the general public.
Reviews:
“On
the Borders of Love and Power
explores the intimate intersections
of race, gender, and empire among
families in the American West. The
editors have gathered provocative
essays by the best-known historians
of family and gender in the region.
This volume captures the breadth and
depth of contemporary research in
the field and will influence
scholars for years to come.”—Albert
L. Hurtado, author of Herbert
Eugene Bolton: Historian of the
American Borderlands
"This important book, full of fine
scholarship, explores the history of
the American West through intimate
and richly rendered portraits of
kinship and family relations.
Emphasizing the centrality of
cross-cultural encounters and the
“micro-politics” of family formation
within the broader context of
colonial “macro-politics” and nation
building, these compelling and
accessible essays provide a deeply
textured understanding of the
history of the region. This volume
will certainly inspire historians of
the Western United States, as well
as those of colonialism, empire, and
national expansion in other regions,
to focus more closely on these
intimate realms in their own
research."—James F. Brooks,
president, School for Advanced
Research, Santa Fe, and author of
Captives & Cousins: Slavery,
Kinship, and Community in the
Southwest Borderlands
For a list of presenters
and their paper titles, click
here.
Symposium organizers and book editors:
Crista DeLuzio
Southern Methodist University
David Wallace Adams
Cleveland State University
Co-sponsored
by
The William
P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern
Methodist University
The Center for the Southwest at the University of New
Mexico and
The
Institute for the Study of the American West at the
Autry National Center
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