Journal of the Southwest articles from September 2003

Journal of the Southwest archives from September 2003

Cloth-wrapped people, trouble, and power: pachuco culture in the greater Southwest.
September 22, 2003... Pachuco youth culture of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico now reaches into other areas of both countries under the newer names: cholo and, in some places, chuco. In the United States it has been described as a Mexican American...

The Camp Grant Massacre in the historical imagination.
September 22, 2003... Remembering and recording the past is fundamental to the human experience. From the chronicles of Herodotus to the origin stories of the Hopi, humans have long found the need to understand how the moments of the past have shaped the present...

The river, the delta, and the sea.
September 22, 2003... The remnants of the ship-yard interested us so much that we made the slough our headquarters for some days while we explored the estuary and our other surroundings, and my partner, who was an inveterate fisherman, found that the waters...

The failed assimilation of the Tarahumara in postrevolutionary Mexico.
September 22, 2003... In a 1927 report on the condition of the Tarahumara to his superiors in the Secretaria de Educacion Publica (SEP or Education Ministry), education inspector Jose Macillas Padilla argued that the problems the SEP needed to address in order to...

Reconnoitering "Pueblo" ethnicity: the 1852 Tesuque delegation to Washington.
September 22, 2003... In 1852, five leading men from Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico journeyed more than 2,600 miles--by horseback, steamboat, and train--to meet with President Millard Fillmore in Washington. In all, the round-trip lasted seven months. The party...