Reviewed by Peter C. Haney | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.2

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This Land Was Mexican Once: Histories of Resistance from Northern California. By Linda Heidenreich. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2007. xiv + 255 pp. Photos, tables, graph, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 (cloth).

Toward the beginning of This Land Was Mexican Once, Linda Heidenreich states (using a phrase from Beatrice Pita's students) that all historical writing is effectively "me story" (p. xi). In this spirit she frames her study of nineteenth-century race relations in what is now Napa County, California, as an effort to come to terms with the racial and gender dynamics she herself encountered growing up in the area during the twentieth century. Her book's twin aims are to examine and challenge dominant histories of California and to recover suppressed narratives of subaltern resistance. By exploring these narratives in Napa County, she seeks to shed light on broader national processes of racial and gender formation. Part of a growing body of literature that challenges binary approaches to U.S. race relations, This Land Was Mexican Once brings together the histories of Native societies, the Spanish colonial order that would become ethnic Mexican after 1821, Anglo-American colonization, immigration from Asia, and migration to the area by African Americans.

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