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Manifest Destinies, Second Edition

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by Laura E. Gómez


  Alianza Federal de Mercedes (National Alliance of Land Grants), 137

  Alonso, Ana María, 53

  Alta California, 4, 7, 18, 22, 54, 193n17, 194n24

  American G.I. Forum, 176–77

  American Indians, xi, 6, 78, 171, 186; assimilation of, 231n123; one-drop rule and, 232n155; as racial group, 1, 161–62, 230n110; in racial hierarchy, 56, 90, 145, 148, 173; with slaves, 119, 222n124, 222n132, 224n10, 231n123; U.S. Census and, 161, 172. See also specific tribes

  anti-immigrant sentiment, 169, 184–85

  Apaches, 53, 55, 56, 90, 112, 222n124

  appellate courts, 34, 40, 99, 129, 152, 203n111

  Arab American National Museum, 51, 205n1

  Archuleta, Diego, 38

  Archuleta, Pantaleon, 39

  Argentina, xviii, 165, 173

  Arizona, 5, 46, 94, 194n19; SB 1070, xii; statehood, 77–82, 105, 153, 194n21, 195n27

  Arizona Rangers, 174

  Asian Americans, 161, 172, 185, 190. See also Chinese; Japanese

  assertion, ethnicity and, 2, 158

  assignment, race and, 2, 158

  assimilation: of American Indians, 231n123; resistance to, 65–66; of whites, 88

  Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad, 89

  Atkinson, Henry M., 132–33

  Atlantic Monthly, 209n86

  attorneys. See lawyers

  Avila, Juan Antonio, 37

  Avila, Manuel, 176–77

  Baca, Celso, 135

  Baca y Ortiz, Faustin, 132

  bailiffs, 92–93

  Bainbridge (Captain), 141

  Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 23, 114, 197n40, 198n45, 220n87

  Banner, Stuart, 227n45

  baptisms, 112, 223n149

  Barcelo, Trinidad, 39

  Barreto, Matt, 190

  Barros, Mariano, 135, 228n69

  Beardsley, Mary, 70

  Beaubien, Charles, 35, 38

  Beck, Warren, 225n30

  Behnken, Brian, 176–77

  Benedict, Kirby, 99, 101

  Bent, Charles, 95, 199n59, 202n103; murder of, 15–16, 28–32, 37, 200n78, 201n100, 203n119; U.S.–Mexican War and, 24–25, 26, 200n87

  Bent, George, 25, 35

  Benton, Thomas Hart, 19

  Beveridge, Albert J., 153, 154, 212n143; imperialism and, 212n137, 212n140; racism and, 212n137, 212n141; statehood and, 77–82, 212n146, 213n151, 233n168

  Black Lives Matter movement, xiii

  Black Reconstruction in America (Du Bois), 215n15

  blacks, 193n7, 235n48, 235n50; population, 108; subordination of, 12, 143–45, 151, 230n110; U.S. Census and, 57, 104, 152. See also African Americans

  Blackwood, Mary, 103

  Blackwood, William, 103–4

  Blair, Frank, 36, 37–38, 39, 201n100

  Blow, Peter, 140

  Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 184

  border, xx, 191n9, 231n132, 236n12; Mexico, 160; New Mexico, 234n21; Texas, 228n88

  Border Patrol, U.S., 236n12

  Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act. See Sensenbrenner immigration bill

  Bowers, Claude G., 212n140, 212n141, 212n146

  Bredahl, Mari Ramirez, 183–84

  Brooklyn Eagle (newspaper), 80

  Brooks, James, 112–13, 115, 116, 220n89, 222n124

  Brown v. Board of Education, 177, 179

  Brubaker, Rogers, 17, 162–63

  Buchanan, James, 43, 204n141

  Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking People, 158

  Cadena, Carlos, 177

  California, 5, 58, 104, 139, 185; Alta California, 4, 7, 18, 22, 54, 193n17, 194n24; citizenship restrictions and, 145–46; gold in, 7, 46, 129, 194n24; politics, 189–90; population, xix, xx, 194n20, 194n24, 195n25; statehood, 43, 46

  California Land Act (1851), 129, 134, 136

  Carbado, Devon, 206n26

  Carson, Kit, 28, 113, 117, 214n169

  Carson National Forest, 137

  caste regime (régimen de castas), 53

  Castro, Fidel, xvii, 166

  Castro, Robert, xxii

  Cather, Willa, 95, 218n42

  Catron, Thomas B., 70, 75, 134, 211n119, 227n63

  Census, U.S.: advisory committee for 1980, 158–59, 171–72; blacks, 57, 104, 152; Las Vegas, New Mexico, 88; Mexican population, 55, 193n6, 194n20; national identity and, 158; New Mexico, 73–74, 104, 194n20, 215n9; non-Indian population, 153; politics and, 158–59, 172; Pueblo Indians, 207n42; racial identity and, 158–64, 169, 171–73, 183, 184, 191n5, 234n26, 234n28, 235n45, 235n47, 235n49, 236n7; resource questions and, 172, 235n41; slave population, 18, 113, 206n15; social construction of race and, 158–64; 2020 census categories, 173

  Chavez, Dennis, 192n24

  Cherokee Tribe, 231n123

  Chicago Tribune, 80, 211n122

  Chicana/o studies, x, xxviii

  Chicano, civil rights movement, 83, 166

  Chickasaw Tribe, 231n123

  children, 114–15, 222n124; education and, 175–76, 179; immigration and, xii, 186, 190, 191n13

  Chile, xviii, 165

  Chinese, 1, 145, 147, 149, 231n133

  Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), 145, 231n133

  Choctaw Tribe, 231n123

  Cincinnati Commercial (newspaper), 75, 211n126

  Citizens Committee to Test the Constitutionality of the Separate Car Law, 232n163

  citizenship: Dred Scott and, 109; for Indians, 59, 145; LULAC, 176, 178; for mestizos, 59, 96; for Mexican Americans, 5–6, 47, 66–67, 91, 102, 143, 145–46, 166; one-drop rules and, 146–55; Pueblo Indians and, 98, 99; race and, 17, 43–47, 67, 77, 81, 102; racial order and, 185; restrictions, xvi, 145–46; second-class, 5–6, 102, 145, 166; statehood and, 84, 194n22; voting and, xx; whites and, 230n114. See also federal citizenship; state citizenship

  Civil Rights Act (1866), 76

  Civil Rights Act (1964), xiii

  civil rights movements: African Americans, 76, 83, 117, 166; Chicano, 83, 166; Mexican American, 176, 179

  Civil War, 12, 20, 107, 193n15; Manifest Destiny as catalyst for, 123–24, 138–46; slavery and, 138–44, 229n101

  Clark, William, 229n97

  A Class Apart (2009), 237n26

  Cleveland, Grover, 133

  Clinton, Hillary, xx

  Cochiti Pueblo, 98–99, 216n16

  Colombia, xvii, 164

  colonialism: Mexican Americans and, 4–5, 10, 12, 125–38; myths about, 16, 119; racial order and, 58–61

  colonization, double, xxi–xxii, 49–50, 86–87

  colonization, of Mexico: executions and, 15–16, 32, 201n99; land transfers and, 227n45; race and, 16–17; with race and citizenship after war, 43–47; resistance to, 22, 26–32, 55–56; by Spain, xxi; trials under U.S. civil law, 32–43; U.S. military and, xxi, 10, 22–26, 73, 197n41, 198n42, 198n43, 198n48, 199n62, 200n82, 217n41, 218n59; war, outbreak of, 17–22; with “white” rights-holders, 10–11, 12, 17–18, 47, 98, 118–21, 214n6

  Colorado, 5, 76, 194n19, 194n21, 195n27, 207n43

  color-blind racism, xii–xiii

  Comanches, 53, 56, 90, 112, 125–26, 224n10

  community land grant, 125–28, 224n15, 225n24

  A Concise History of New Mexico (Prince), 72, 82

  conversion, religious, 59–60, 88

  Cordova, Gloria, 204n138

  Cornell, Stephen, 3, 166–67

  Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 55, 206n17

  Costa Rica, xviii, 165

  county courts, 91–95

  Court of Private Land Claims, U.S., 125, 128, 130, 134–36

  courts: appellate, 34, 40, 99, 129, 152, 203n111; county, 91–95; federal, xv, 63, 99, 130, 140–41; with language, 92, 94, 211n126; territorial, 70–72, 93, 97, 116; trials, 15–16, 32–43, 92, 176, 180, 201n99, 202n104, 203n120; U.S. Court of Private Land Claims, 125, 128, 130, 134–36. See also criminal courts; Supreme Court, U.S.; supreme courts

  Creek Tribe, 231n123

  Cresencio Rejón, Manuel, 205n1
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  Crime and Punishment (Friedman), 202n107, 203n108, 203n110, 203n111

  criminal courts, 92, 202n104, 202n105, 216n19, 216n29. See also trials

  Cruz, Ted, xvi

  Cuba, 77, 164, 166–67

  Cuban Americans, xvi–xviii, 159, 165, 189

  Cuban Refugee Program, 167

  culture, 82–83, 209n77

  Curiel, Gonzalo, xv

  Davis, William Watts Hart, 63–64, 65

  De Anda, James, 177

  De Arguello v. United States, 230n109

  Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), 95, 218n42

  Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, 190, 191n13. See also Dreamers movement

  De León, Arnoldo, 148

  Democratic Party, xi, 17, 190

  demographics, 8, 194n23; blacks, 151; Hispanics, 158–60; Latinos, xvi–xx, 207n43; Mexican Americans, xviii–xix, 193n6; New Mexico, 7, 73–74, 104, 194n20, 215n9; with population and juries, 70–72. See also Census, U.S.

  De Niza, Marcos, 50, 52

  deportations, immigration, xii, 160, 188

  Dimas, José Angel, 125

  discrimination: against blacks, 235n50; in labor, 171; language, 188–89. See also racism

  District of Columbia, Latino population in, xx

  DNA research, 57, 207n43

  dominant view of race, 65–67, 82, 83. See also progressive view of race

  Dominican Americans, xvii, 164–65, 173

  Dominican Republic, 164

  Doniphan (Colonel), 199n57

  double colonization, xxi–xxii, 49–50, 86–87

  Dowling, Julie, 183

  Dreamers movement, xii, 190

  Dred Scott (Scott v. Sandford): legal history, 229n92, 229n93; role of, 12, 141, 146; slavery and, 5, 109, 138, 140, 144, 230n103

  Du Bois, W. E. B., 215n15

  Durán, Tobias, 23

  Ebright, Malcolm, 125, 207n40, 226n41

  Ecuador, xvii, 164

  education, ix, x, 172, 175–77, 179, 189

  ejido system, of land distribution, 224n11

  elites. See Mexican American elites

  Elkins, Stephen B., 99, 210n111

  El Salvador, 164. See also Salvadoran Americans

  Emancipation Proclamation, 110, 114

  Emerson, John, 140–41

  empresario land grants, 224n11

  English only legislation: in Arizona, 174; in Florida, 189

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 171

  Equal Protection Clause, 178–79

  españoles. See Spaniards

  Espinoza, Joe, 178

  Esquibel, José Antonio, 56, 58

  Estevan (Zammouri) (explorer), 50–52, 205n1, 205n2, 206n5

  Estrada, Leo, 172, 236n7

  ethnicity, xix, 2–3, 209n77, 238n58

  Euro-Americans: cartoons reflecting view of Mexicans, 80–81; definition, 13; settlers, Mexico, 18; views of Mexicans, 18–19, 26–28, 43–45, 63–67. See also whites

  E-Verify, xii

  exceptionalism, New Mexico, xxi, 9–10, 78, 192n35

  executions, 15–16, 32, 42, 196n3, 201n99

  Farago, Claire, 126

  federal citizenship: for African Americans, 144; for Mexican Americans, 5–6, 47, 143, 145–46; slaves without, 109, 144; state citizenship compared, 45–47, 143, 205n154; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and, 67, 86, 98–99, 142, 143, 146

  federal court, xv, 63, 99, 130, 140–41

  Fehrenbacher, Don, 109, 138, 142, 228n90, 230n103

  Fernandez, Lilia, 180–81, 237n37

  The First Immigrants: From Slave to Explorer exhibition, 205n1

  Fleming v. Page, 230n109

  Florida, xvi–xix, 45, 50, 141, 189

  Foley, Neil, 3, 62, 107

  Foos, Paul, 21–22

  Forest Service, U.S., 128

  Fox, Cybelle, 175

  free persons, 104, 107–8, 144, 229n95, 229n98

  Fremont v. United States, 230n109

  Friedman, Lawrence, 34, 202n104, 202n107, 203n108, 203n110, 203n111

  Fugitive Slave Act, 139

  Fuller, Melville W., 136

  Gadsden Purchase (1853), 194n18

  Gallegos, José Manuel, 97–98, 218n57, 218n59

  Gallegos, Juan, 125

  Gallegos, Román, 125

  Ganaway, Loomis, 105, 219n84, 221n109

  Garcia, Gus, 177

  García, José Manuel, 35, 37, 38

  García, José María, 223n140

  Garcia, Macario, 177

  Garrard, Lewis, 31–32, 38, 196n3, 196n4

  genízaros, 56–57, 126–27, 207n39, 207n40

  Glazer, Nathan, 163

  gold, in California, 7, 46, 129, 194n24

  Gómez, Placido, 126

  Gonzales, Alfonso, 187

  Gonzáles, Phillip, 137, 174

  Gonzáles, Tomás, 125

  González, Deena J., 28, 208n54

  Gordon, Linda, 232n156

  Las Gorras Blancas, 137. See also the White Caps

  grand juries: legal system and, 34–38, 93, 176; in New York County (1900), 202n105; race and, 41, 111–12, 114, 120, 202n107, 203n116, 221n118

  Grant, Ulysses S., 20, 21

  grants. See land grants

  “greasers,” 29, 68, 209n78, 209n80, 209n86, 211n122

  Gregg, Josiah, 202n103

  Griswold del Castillo, Richard, 204n143, 204n147, 205n152

  Guatemala, xvii, 164, 165, 169

  Guerra, Pablo de la, 45

  Guerrera, Pablo, 36

  Gulati, Mitu, 206n26

  Gutiérrez, Ramón, 52, 55, 103, 112, 206n17, 207n39

  Haase, Ynez, 225n30

  habeas corpus, 76, 223n140

  Hale, Eugene, 153

  Hall, Emlen, 216n18, 224n2

  Hall, Willard P., 199n57

  hangings (1847), 15–16, 32, 42, 196n3

  Harris, Cheryl, 152, 232n163

  Harrison, Benjamin, 134–35

  Hartmann, Douglas, 3, 166–67

  Hawaii, 8, 119, 195n27

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 69, 210n94

  Head, Lafayette, 114–15, 117

  Hendricks, Rick, 207n40

  Heredia, Tomás, 223n140

  Hernandez, Pete, 178–79

  Hernandez v. Texas (1954), 177–79, 237n26

  Herrera, John, 177

  hierarchy. See racial hierarchy

  Hispanics, xvi, 13, 194n21, 235n45; demographics, 158–60; Mexican Americans as, x, 13, 191n5; racial identity and, 159–65, 167–69; white, 167. See also Latinos

  “The Hispanic Political Elite” (Ramirez), 217n33

  “Hispano,” 13, 209n77

  Historical Sketches of New Mexico (Prince), 72

  History of the Military Occupation of the Territory of New Mexico (Twitchell), 200n82, 217n41, 218n59

  Homeland Security, xii, 188

  Honduras, xvii, 165

  Horsman, Reginald, 4, 18–19, 62, 204n141

  Houghton, Joab, 35, 38, 39

  Houston, Sam, 19, 204n144

  identity. See racial identity

  “identity performance,” 206n26

  Ilahiane, Hsain, 51

  “illegal aliens,” xiv, 60, 187–88, 238n59

  Illinois, x, 108, 140, 188

  immigration, 2, 205n1, 238n58; anti-, 169, 184–85; children and, xii, 186, 190, 191n13; Chinese and, 1, 145, 149, 231n133; deportations, xii, 160, 188; “illegal aliens,” xiv, 60, 187–88, 238n59; Japanese, 231n133; Latinos, 168; laws, xii, xviii, xx, 145, 149–50, 191n9, 193n5, 231n133; whites, 91–92

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement, xii

  imperialism, xxi, 4, 118, 142; racism and, 119, 212n141; support for, 212n137, 212n140, 223n153

  Impossible Subjects (Ngai), 238n59

  Indian peoples: citizenship for, 59, 145; on forced march, 117; genízaros, 56–57, 126–27, 207n39, 207n40; land and, 96, 99, 102–3; non-, 153, 194n24; as political outsiders, 65; population, 55, 58, 73–74, 195n25, 209n78; in racial hierarchy, 52–53, 56, 86, 90;
racial order and, 60; racial stereotypes, 67; rape of, 206n17; sexual exploitation of, 52; with slavery and Mexican American elites, 110–18, 222n134; with tourism and culture, 209n77. See also American Indians; Pueblo Indians

  Indian/Spanish mestizos, in racial hierarchy, 53, 56

  Indian Trade and Intercourse Act (1834), 99, 100

  indios bárbaros (non-Pueblo Indians), 97

  individual land grants, 224n11, 224n15

  In re Rodriguez, 147–48, 150, 151, 231n135

  Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican American Affairs, 158

  intermarriage, 160–61, 208n54, 232n155

  invasion of Mexico (by U.S.), 19, 22–25, 30–32; law and, 40–42

  Jackson, Alexander, 105, 109

  Jacobson, Matthew, 3

  Japanese, 149, 231n133

  Jaramillo, Ignacia, 25, 28, 29, 199n60

  Jaramillo, Josefa, 28

  Jefferson, Thomas, 61

  Jemez Pueblo, 48, 216n16

  Jenkins, Myra Ellen, 199n63

  Johannsen, Robert, 20

  Johnson, Andrew, 110, 113–14

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 158, 193n5, 233n6

  Julian, George, 133

  juries: language and, 71–72, 222n119; in New Mexico, 202n106, 202n107, 203n110; petit, 34–37, 41, 93, 112, 120, 221n118; race and, 93, 177–78, 202n107, 221n118; role of, 93; on territorial courts, 70–72. See also grand juries

  justice of the peace courts, 110–11. See also alcalde system

  justices, territorial supreme court, 46, 93, 97, 116, 219n62

  Kansas, 194n19, 195n27

  Kearny, Stephen Watts, 125, 229n97; with military conquest of New Mexico, 22–26, 198n43, 198n48, 199n62; role of, 35, 40, 197n39, 198n53, 198n55

  Kearny Code, 24, 199n57, 200n82, 201n101

  Kit Carson Park, 214n169

  Knight, Alan, 54

  Kosek, Jake, 128

  Kraemer, Paul, 57, 127

  labor: Chinese and, 145, 147; discrimination in, 171; minimum wage, 188; race and, 16–17

  Lacayo, Celia, 185

  Laguna Pueblo, 218n58

  La Madrid, Enrique, 125

  Lamar, Howard, 199n59, 201n101, 202n103, 205n159

  Lamy, Jean-Baptiste, 217n41, 218n57

  land: claims, 125, 128, 130, 134–36, 227n46, 227n58; distribution, ejido system, 224n11; Indian peoples and, 96, 99, 102–3; laws, 99, 100, 129, 133, 134, 136, 225n34, 225n36, 225n38; of Mexican Americans with colonialism, 125–38; race and, 16–17, 130; transfers, 137, 227n45

  land grants: San Miguel del Vado, 125–28, 132, 134, 137; types of, 224n11, 224n15, 225n24

  Lane, William Carr, 97

  language, 188–89, 205n1; barriers, 89, 215n13; courts with, 92, 94, 211n126; juries and, 71–72, 222n119; literacy and, 75–76, 174; statehood and, 75–76, 79. See also English only legislation

 

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