33 - California Conquests, An Interview With Miroslava Chávez García

October 19, 2020 00:40:47
33 - California Conquests, An Interview With Miroslava Chávez García
History of California Podcast
33 - California Conquests, An Interview With Miroslava Chávez García

Oct 19 2020 | 00:40:47

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Show Notes

Today, we have a special interview with Miroslava Chávez-García about the conquests of California. Miroslava Chávez-García is a Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds affiliations in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies. Author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (Tucson, 2004) and States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California’s Juvenile Justice System (Berkeley, 2012), Miroslava’s most recent book, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Chapel Hill, 2018), is a history of migration, courtship, and identity as told through more than 300 personal letters exchanged across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands among family members and friends. Most recently, in 2020, the book was selected as a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and in 2019 it won the Western Association of Women’s Historians Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award to honor the book that illustrates the use of a specific set of primary sources (such as diaries, letters, and interviews). Our Patreon Page: www.patreon.com/historyofcalifornia Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/history_of_ca_podcast If you'd like to subscribe to the new weekly newsletter, please follow this link: eepurl.com/haiCNX Support our podcast by buying some historical swag: teespring.com/history-of-california-podcast?pid=46 Also, support our podcast by purchasing a sophisticated coffee mug or a fashionable tote bag, perfect for lugging around heavy history books: teespring.com/new-history-of-cal…ornia-podc?pid=658

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