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Title Over the edge : remapping the American West / edited by Valerie J. Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999].
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (399 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "Published in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Imagining the West. Seeing and being seen : tourism in the American West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Toga! Toga! / Blake Allmendinger -- Sacred and profane : Mae West's (re)presentation of western religion / Jill Watts -- "I think our romance is spoiled," or, crossing genres : California history in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don / Anne E. Goldman -- A westerner in search of "negro-ness" : region and race in the writing of Arna Bontemps / Douglas Flamming -- pt. 2. Crossing boundaries. "Domestic" life in the diggings : the southern mines in the California gold rush / Susan Lee Johnson -- Making men in the West : the coming of age of Miles Cavanaugh and Martin Frank Dunham / Mary Murphy -- Changing woman : maternalist politics and "racial rehabilitation" in the U.S. West / Karen Anderson -- Mobility, women, nd the West / Virginia Scharff -- Plague in Los Angeles, 1924 : ethnicity and typicality / William Deverell -- The Tapia-Saiki incident : interethnic conflict and Filipino responses to the anti-Filipino exclusion movement / Arleen de Vera -- Race, gender, and the privileges of property : on the significance of miscegenation law in the U.S. West / Peggy Pascoe -- American Indian blood quantum requirements : blood is thicker than family / Melissa L. Meyer. -- pt. 3. Creating community. Crucifixion, slavery, and death : the Hermanos Penitentes of the Southwest / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- "Pongo mi demanda" : challenging patriarchy in Mexican Los Angeles, 1830-1850 / Miroslava Chavez -- Japanese American women and the creation of urban Nisei culture in the 1930s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Competing communities at work : Asian Americans, European Americans, and native Alaskans in the Pacific Northwest, 1938-1947 / Chris Friday -- Perceiving, experiencing and expressing the sacred : an indigenous Southern Californian view / Louise V. Jeffredo-Warden -- Dead West : ecocide in Marlboro country / Mike Davis -- La frontera del norte / Jesús Martínez-Saldaña.
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Subject West (U.S.) -- Civilization.
Regionalism -- West (U.S.)
Regionalism.
West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations.
Sex role -- West (U.S.)
Sex role.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gender roles.
Added Author Matsumoto, Valerie J., editor.
Allmendinger, Blake, editor.
University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Other Form: Print version: Over the edge. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999 0520211480 (DLC) 97039311 (OCoLC)37917298
ISBN 9780520920118 (electronic book)
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9780520211483 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0520211480 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780520211490 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0520211499 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0520211480 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0520211499 (paperback : alkaline paper)