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Aztln and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place JSTOR: Viewing Subject: History Amount of access 305 Journals in JSTOR Date Range Aboriginal History Rank: #1885447 in BooksPublished on: 2014-08-22Released on: 2014-08-22Original language: EnglishNumber of items: 1Dimensions: 9.00" h x .56" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds Binding: Paperback232 pages 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.Inventing an Inauthentic, Superficial Past OR Finding Character in a Contested PlaceBy El SeptentrionalIn "Aztlan and Arcadia," Roberto Lint Sagarena provides his audience with an analysis of the creation of an identity (principally in California) that was based on either Spanish colonial or Mexican indigenista (Native-consciousness) notions. Using the 1846-1848 U.S.-Mexico War and the U.S. conquest of California as a guiding reference point, Lint Sagarena demonstrates how different groups cultivated an identity out of a common Hispanic past in the region. Although the area now considered the U.S. state of California was colonized since 1769 by Spanish friars and from 1821-1848 by Mexico, different groups, depending on their purposes, refashioned the past for their own identity-making purposes. Focusing geographically on Southern California, Lint Sagarena asserts that the founding of California's famed Franciscan missions provided the region with a distinctive colonial identity that allowed white U.S. civic leaders and local economic developers to claim a past in this recently Mexican territory. If the Spanish friars at the various 21 missions constructed along the coast represented the region's initial civilizers (i.e., white/European colonizers) then in a sense the post-1848 U.S. incorporation of California into the nation was justified in the sense that the new colonizers were picking up where the old left off. Mexican rule, particularly the secularization of the missions, was a portrayed by many Anglo Californians (and even a few upper class californios) as a dark age of bad governance; if California was being ruined in such a way, how could North Americans not take the lead and finish the civilizing work of those lionized Franciscan friars like Junipero Serra Lint Sagarena explores how this Hispanophilia - a growing romanticism for the alleged easier days of yore in Spanish California - developed to the point that it inspired architectural and literary expressions that sought to reclaim the region's Hispanic history (which oddly did not account for the lay Hispanic colonists scattered throughout the region - most of them, like the settlers of L.A. and San Jose, of mestizo Mexican extraction).The Aztlan aspect of the book has less material and analysis going for it than the detailed discussion of the Spanish Fantasy Past that certain individuals articulated as distinctive of the young Golden State. Nevertheless, Lint Sagarena traces how the Aztlan concept acted as another sort of fantasy past for actual Spanish-heritage individuals throughout the U.S. Southwest, namely the Chicano activist generation of the 1960s and 1970s. If the missions were the focal point for Californian Hispanophiles of the late 1800s, then Our Lady of Guadalupe was the focus of Chicano expressionism centered on the Aztlan viewpoint. Reflecting on how even creole Mexican thinkers during the late colonial period in New Spain looked to the far-flung reaches of what is now the U.S. Southwest as the spiritual and actual home of the Aztec-Mexica, Lint Sagarena asserts that thinkers such as Alurista, Corky Gonzalez, and others used the notion of Aztlan - an unidentifiable place if there ever was one - as a way to help forge a common identity among a restless people who demanded social reform. full equal rights, and an identity that could cohesively unite their U.S. citizenship with their Mexican heritage.Readers will find this book by Lint Sagarena, a scholar with religious studies training, a wonderful read owing to its flow and attention to detail, particularly in its discussion of the Pious Fund and the entanglement that befell the Mexican government as it had to pay an endowment to the California missions (already part of the U.S.) from the 1870s until the late 1960s. A greater discussion of the experiences of Mexican clergy who fled the mid-1920s Cristero conflict in Mexico to California would've strengthened this book, but this study as is contributes much to the fields of religious studies, Latinos studies, American studies, and California history in general. And - unlike a lot of other books which claim to do so - Lint Sagarena's study actually explores all of Southern California (Santa Barbara to Riverside to San Diego) rather than focus exclusively on the metropolitan Los Angeles area. This book is highly recommended for its analysis of how conquered and conquerors negotiated their past California.See all 1 customer reviews... JSTOR: Viewing Subject: History Amount of access 305 Journals in JSTOR Date Range Aboriginal History
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