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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: "No other blood": History, language, and Spanish-American ethnic identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1920s Abstract: This study traces the origins and evolution of a "Spanish American" ethnic identity in New Mexico between the 1880s and the 1920s. That identity was articulated in various social and political contexts: in the territory's struggle for admission into the Union; in booster campaigns which encouraged immigration and tourism; in popular histories that romanticized the region's "Spanish" past; and in the popular and scholarly texts authored by self-identified "Spanish Americans." By the 1920s, the hispanidad, or a Spanish sensibility, had become a central feature of Spanish American ethnic identity, as made evident in the writings of hispanos Benjamin Read and Aurelio Espinosa. The rise of tourism throughout this period illustrates the crowning irony of twentieth-century New Mexico: the sublimation of "Spanish" and "Indian" cultures, and the simultaneous marginalization of Spanish Americans and Native Americans from political and social realms. These phenomena have not received sufficient attention by scholars. This study, therefore, seeks to remedy that deficit. |
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