| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s–1930s. By John M. Nieto-Phillips. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. xvi + 312 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, index. $32.50.)

In this well-written and thought-provoking monograph, John Nieto-Phillips tackles one of the more intriguing questions in the history of race relations in the West: Why did so many Spanish-speaking New Mexicans identify themselves as Spanish Americans around the turn of the twentieth century? Nieto-Phillips argues that claims by Nuevomexicanos to have a pure Spanish and European racial identity unsullied by contact with indigenous groups in Mexico or the United States was a creative response to decades of demeaning and deeply racist attacks on New Mexicans by a broader American public. Nuevomexicanos, Nieto-Phillips contends, cannily developed a rhetoric of resistance that could offer Nuevomexicanos of all classes a "language of blood" to challenge their increasing economic and political marginalization.

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