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Review Of Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture.

Review Of Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in... Pacific Historical Review Anglos who imagined themselves, by virtue of their wealth and taste, the legitimate heirs to a genteel civilization that stood ascendant over contemporary Native American and Mexican residents. Kropp demonstrates that these powerful representations of old California did not speak with a single voice. The tales that californios told to assert their status in an increasingly Anglo world were appropriated by Anglos to legitimize their own conquest of the land. The missions' colorful stories of padres and Indians had very different meanings and consequences for Anglo tourists posing with their new automobiles beside the picturesque ruins, for local parishioners seeking functional places to worship, and for the struggling Native American communities who still lived in Southern California. The romantic Old Mexico landscape fashioned by Anglos on Olvera Street in the 1930s was actively challenged by the growing political strength of the neighborhood's contemporary Mexican American community. A considerable strength of the book is Kropp's ability to integrate the California story into the national one. Southern California's invented Spanish past was not all that different from the invented colonial ones popular at the time in New England and the Upper South. Rather than framing California as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pacific Historical Review University of California Press

Review Of Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture.

MOLINA, NATALIA
Pacific Historical Review , Volume 76 (4) – Nov 1, 2007
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University of California Press
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10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.634
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Pacific Historical Review Anglos who imagined themselves, by virtue of their wealth and taste, the legitimate heirs to a genteel civilization that stood ascendant over contemporary Native American and Mexican residents. Kropp demonstrates that these powerful representations of old California did not speak with a single voice. The tales that californios told to assert their status in an increasingly Anglo world were appropriated by Anglos to legitimize their own conquest of the land. The missions' colorful stories of padres and Indians had very different meanings and consequences for Anglo tourists posing with their new automobiles beside the picturesque ruins, for local parishioners seeking functional places to worship, and for the struggling Native American communities who still lived in Southern California. The romantic Old Mexico landscape fashioned by Anglos on Olvera Street in the 1930s was actively challenged by the growing political strength of the neighborhood's contemporary Mexican American community. A considerable strength of the book is Kropp's ability to integrate the California story into the national one. Southern California's invented Spanish past was not all that different from the invented colonial ones popular at the time in New England and the Upper South. Rather than framing California as

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Published: Nov 1, 2007

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