TY - BOOK ID - 78716134 TI - Forging Arizona PY - 2019 SN - 0813598850 9780813598857 9780813598826 0813598826 9780813598819 0813598818 PB - New Brunswick Rutgers University Press DB - UniCat KW - Swindlers and swindling. KW - Race relations. KW - Land tenure KW - Land grants KW - Fraud. KW - Swindlers and swindling KW - Fraud KW - Con artists KW - Confidence men KW - Confidence women KW - Grifters KW - Scam artists KW - Scammers and scamming KW - Scamming KW - Crime KW - Criminals KW - Tricksters KW - Commercial fraud KW - Deceit KW - Misrepresentation (Crime) KW - Commercial crimes KW - Deception KW - Torts KW - Hoaxes KW - Impostors and imposture KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Grants, Land KW - Land patents KW - Patents (Land grants) KW - Colonization KW - Public lands KW - Law and legislation. KW - History. KW - Law and legislation KW - Reavis, James Addison, KW - Claims vs. United States. KW - United States. KW - West United States. KW - Arizona. KW - Arizona KW - West (U.S.) KW - American West KW - Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) KW - United States, Western KW - Western States (U.S.) KW - Western United States KW - History KW - Race relations KW - Land laws KW - Integration, Racial KW - Race problems KW - Race question KW - Relations, Race KW - Ethnology KW - Social problems KW - Sociology KW - Ethnic relations KW - Minorities KW - Racism KW - Law KW - Â-li-sông-ná KW - Aariisuunaa KW - ʻAlikona KW - Ariz. KW - Arizona Eyâleti KW - Arizona osariik KW - Arizona-shū KW - Arizona (Ter.) KW - Arizona Territory KW - Arizono KW - Ārīzūnā KW - Aryzona KW - AZ KW - Civitas Arizonae KW - Estado de Arizona KW - Estato d'Arizona KW - Hoozdo Hahoodzo KW - Negara Bagian Arizona KW - Politeia tēs Arizona KW - Shtat Aryzona KW - State of Arizona KW - Statul Arizona KW - Talaith Arizona KW - Territory of Arizona KW - Πολιτεία της Αριζόνα KW - Αριζονα KW - Арызона KW - Аризона KW - Штат Арызона KW - Штат Аризона KW - أريزونا KW - アリゾナ KW - アリゾナ州 KW - Â-li-sông-n KW - Arizona-sh KW - Ārīzūn KW - United States, West UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78716134 AB - In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim ownership of a substantial portion of the newly-acquired Southwestern territories. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including court records, newspapers, fiction, and film, Huizar-Hernández argues that the creation, collapse, and eventual forgetting of Reavis's scam reveal the mechanisms by which narratives, real and imaginary, forge borders. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S Southwest border, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them. ER -