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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: "Indios barbaros", divorcees, and flocks of vampires: Identity and nation on the Rio Grande, 1749--1894 Abstract: This study analyzes the interplay among state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the Spanish/Mexican and North American borderlands. It reveals the ways that three nations--Spain, Mexico, and the United States--competed for control of the Lower Rio Grande region and, in the process, helped shape society between the 1740s and the 1890s. The transitions in the region's government precipitated multiple transformation in ethnic relations and national identities. Beginning as Spanish subjects, colonists conquered and enslaved the region's indigenous peoples; then as Mexican citizens, residents defended the northern border from Indian and North American attacks; and ultimately, they became U.S. citizens under local governments dominated by European Americans. Gender relations in the borderlands also changed with U.S. annexation, partly because marriage and divorce, controlled in Mexico by the Catholic church, passed into the jurisdiction of U.S. civil authorities. I argue that the state-building processes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States molded but did not determine the identities of the inhabitants of the border region. Residents adapted to each government's attempts to control the region; they undermined formal structures by fashioning fluid, often contradictory identities within the borderlands' volatile political atmosphere. |
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