Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands PDF
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Border Bodies This page intentionally left blank Bernadine Marie Hernández Border Bodies Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Vio lence in the Nineteenth- Century Borderlands The University of North Carolina Press C hapel Hill This book was published with the assistance of the Authors Fund of the University of North Carolina Press. © 2022 Bernadine Marie Hernández All rights reserved Set in Arno Pro by Westchester Publishing Services Manufactured in the United States of Amer i ca The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hernández, Bernadine Marie, author. Title: Border bodies : racialized sexuality, sexual capital, and violence in the nineteenth-century borderlands / Bernadine Marie Hernández. Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021052599 | ISBN 9781469667881 (cloth) | ISBN 9781469667898 (paperback) | ISBN 9781469667904 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Sex role—Southwest, New—History. | Women—Southwest, New—History. | Mexican American women—Southwest, New—History. | Sex crimes—Southwest, New—History. | Sexual abuse victims—Southwest, New—History. | Capitalism—Southwest, New—History. Classification: LCC HQ1075.5.U6 H47 2022 | DDC 305.30979—dc23/eng/20211108 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021052599 Cover illustration: Woman identified as “Carmen” (colorized version of monochrome photo). Arizona Historical Society, Gustave van Hemert Schneider Archive, 1912. Chapter 4 was previously published in a dif er ent form as “Productive Racialized Sex: The Sexual Economy of the Southwest Borderlands, the Nuevomexicana Body Politic, and Memory Archives,” in Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland, eds. Vanessa Fonseca- Chávez, Levi Romero, and Spencer R. Herrera (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020). For Eleanor Tapía Barreras and Guadalupe María Hernández, my first examples of what it meant to be a fierce mujer. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowl edgments xi Introduction: Sexual Frontiers, Racialized Bodies, and Sexual Capital 1 chapter one The Oikopolitic: The F ather of All, Brokering of the Californiana Body, and the “Natu ral Order of T hings” in Alta California 25 chapter two Cir cuits of Brown, Black, and Red: The Politics of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth- Century Borderlands 48 chapter three Absent Presence: The Ghost of the “Only Woman Hanged” in Texas and the Abstract Labor of Gender Racial Formations 79 chapter four Productive Racialized Sex: The Sexual Economy of the Southwest Borderlands, the Nuevomexicana Body Politic, and Memory Archives 105 chapter five Technology of “Unproductive” Brown Bodies: The Po liti cal Economy of Prostitution and Racialized Sexual Pathology in Arizona at the Turn of the Century 139 Coda 176 Notes 181 Bibliography 203 Index 219 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations and Map illustrations Anita de la Guerra de Thompson 46 Map of San Patricio County 82 “C hipita,” by Iris Guthrie 97 Bettie 166 Unnamed woman 167 Carmen[?] 170 Molly 1 172 Molly 2 173 Molly 3 173 Women’s Memorial Park cross 180 map The Cotton Trail to the Rio Grande 92
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