Enduring Legacies - new book

2011, ISBN: 9781607320500

Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. "Endur… More...

Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. "Enduring Legacies" expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasises the multiplicity of people who have inhabited this region. Addressing the dearth of. Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. "Enduring Legacies" expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasises the multiplicity of people who have inhabited this region. Addressing the dearth of scholarship on the varied communities within Colorado-a zone in which collisions structured by forces of race, nation, class, gender, and sexuality inevitably lead to the transformation of cultures and the emergence of new identities - this volume is the first to bring together comparative scholarship on historical and contemporary issues that span groups from Chicanas and Chicanos to African Americans to Asian Americans. This book will be relevant to students, academics, and general readers interested in Colorado history and ethnic studies. Books, Society and Social Sciences~~Sociology & Anthropology~~Anthropology, Enduring Legacies~~Book~~9781607320500, , Enduring Legacies, , 9781607320500, University Press of Colorado, 03/01/2011, , , , University Press of Colorado<