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Author Acosta, Sal, author

Title Sanctioning matrimony : western expansion and interethnic marriage in the Arizona borderlands / Sal Acosta
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Arizona's Miscegenation Law and Racial Prescriptions; 2. The Discourse of Manifest Destiny and the Mexican Question; 3. Intermarriage in Tucson, 1860-1930; 4. "The woman in question is not a white woman, but a Mexican": Relationships with Blacks and Chinese; 5. Marital Expectations in the Borderlands; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "This book examines intermarriage among Mexicans in the Tucson area between 1860 and 1930, shifting the focus away from marriages by the landed elite and onto the working class"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Miscegenation -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century
Miscegenation -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 19th century
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 19th century
Social classes -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century
Social classes -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 19th century
Mexican Americans -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Mexican Americans -- Arizona -- Tucson -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Interracial marriage -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 20th century
Interracial marriage -- Arizona -- Tucson -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions
Miscegenation
Social classes
Mexikaner
Interethnische Ehe
Mestizisierung
Soziale Klasse
Recht
Arizona -- Tucson
Tucson, Ariz.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816533763
0816533768