| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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Book Review

Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820–1880. By María Raquél Casas. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. xiii + 261 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Focusing on intermarriage as the connective tissue between local histories and colonizing patterns, María Raquél Casas's study of Spanish-Mexican womens' intermarriage across three political sovereignties is a richly textured, nuanced analysis of women's agency and negotiation of gender, race, class, culture, identity, and intimacy on California's changing, often volatile, political, economic, and cultural landscape. In this elegant, theoretically sophisticated work, Casas argues against the hegemonic interpretations of intermarriage as a metaphor for Euro-Americans' peaceful invasion of California; against structural theories that emphasize the utilitarian role of women in intermarriage to establish the historical, legal, and sociocultural basis for interethnic/interracial marriage; and argues for women involved in intermarriage as cultural agents.

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