“This Evil Extends Especially…To The Feminine Sex”: Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands

Brooks, James F.

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“…Recent scholarship by James Brooks suggests that Genízaras were embedded in a "deeply ambivalent dialectic between exploitation and negotiation," and exerted more agency than scholars previously assumed through patterns of kinship, labor, and diplomacy. 77 Similarly, Juliana Barr has argued that Native female captives regulated male power by operating as peace brokers in a system based on kinship and a "diplomacy of gender." 78 When placed in the context of Montoya's broader portfolio, La Genízara also becomes an agent rather than simply an object or commodity, echoing Cynthia Jeannette Gómez's claim that Genízaros and their descendants "have always been more than captives and slaves."…”

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Recovering Mestiza Genealogies in Contemporary New Mexican Art: Delilah Montoya’s El Sagrado Corazón (1993)

Lewthwaite¹

2016

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A portrait should be more than a topographical likeness. It should point to the historical, social and economic status of the subject.-Delilah Montoya, 2013 1 Our lived reality had never been expressed artistically. We were drawing on a collective memory, a memory of absence. We're trying to discuss things that have never been discussed.-Delilah Montoya, 2000 2In her El Sagrado Corazón (Sacred Heart) series from the early 1990s, photographer Delilah Montoya replays the colonial history of New Mexico in order to reveal the mixed, Indo-Hispano heritage of her mother's birthplace. In a vital portrait from the series, Montoya addresses the neglected role that Genízaros or captive Native peoples played in shaping Spanish-speaking Hispano culture and society in New Mexico. 3 By depicting a captive Native girl in La Genízara, Montoya rewrites the colonial past as a history rooted in the slavery and oppression of indigenous women and children. From the sixteenth century onwards, colonial rule in New Mexico shaped the creation of distinct hierarchies of race, class, and gender, which became tied to systems of caste, servitude, and patriarchy. Vestiges of colonial power and myth-making continue to determine the status of New Mexico's Hispano population today. In contemporary New Mexico, old colonial hierarchies and caste systems play themselves out through the state-sanctioned myth of tri-cultural harmony, in

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Recovering Mestiza Genealogies in Contemporary New Mexican Art: Delilah Montoya’s El Sagrado Corazón (1993)

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2016

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“…Captivity and captivity narratives, for example, engaged the attention of both women's historians and feminist literary critics long before 1990, but the past decade or so has witnessed a surge of renewed interest, with historians June Namias (1993), John Demos (1994), James Brooks (1997), Jill Lepore (1998), and others joined by English professors such as Christopher Castiglia (1996) and Rebecca Blevins Faery (1999). Captivity and captivity narratives, for example, engaged the attention of both women's historians and feminist literary critics long before 1990, but the past decade or so has witnessed a surge of renewed interest, with historians June Namias (1993), John Demos (1994), James Brooks (1997), Jill Lepore (1998), and others joined by English professors such as Christopher Castiglia (1996) and Rebecca Blevins Faery (1999).…”

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“…Neither Antonia Castañeda (1993), James Brooks (1997), nor Albert Hurtado (1999) yet offers as expansive a view of the pre-1800 years as Gutiérrez and Bouvier. But they, too, are interested in the gendered meanings of intercultural power dynamics.…”

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Women and Gender

Karlsen¹

2006

A Companion to Colonial America

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Early American women's history can be considered an old or a new field. We tend to think of it, like women's history in other times and places, as a relatively recent practice, a product of the women's liberation and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. And for the most part it is. But for historians who initiated their studies in the 1970s, at least two earlier bodies of work beckoned, one on European Americans, the other on Native Americans. Because these literatures so profoundly influenced the assumptions, questions, challenges, and theoretical orientations of subsequent scholarship, assessment of the how the field has developed over the past three decades necessarily starts here.Most widely recognized in 1970 were several books written earlier in the twentieth century by feminist writers interested in women who migrated from England (Earle, 1904;Abbot, 1910;Dexter, 1924;Spruill, 1938). Not all of these authors had academic credentials and their approaches and arguments varied, but they shared a passion for reclaiming a place for Anglo-American women in particular in early American history. As a group these scholars fostered the idea that skewed sex ratios, labor shortages, high mortality, and institutional instability worked to these women's advantage, whether as compared to their European counterparts or their nineteenth-century American descendants. Frontier conditions, in conjunction with pre-industrial work patterns and values, the argument went, enhanced women's status and opportunities in the New World; once these circumstances changed, especially with increased social and cultural complexity and the coming of the Industrial Revolution, women's status declined and women were relegated to the marginal positions they would occupy from then on.Eventually each of these constructions -frontier, pre-industrial, women's status, New World, and most recently, women -would be contested, as would much of the larger argument. But in the early 1970s, this interpretation held, in part because it had received considerable support since the 1930s from established male historians. Less interested in women's lives per se than in re-creating early religious, legal, family, and community history, these scholars had stressed the harmony and mutuality of relations between women and men. Puritans in particular, they affirmed, with their emphasis on the centrality of marriage and the equality of souls before God, had accorded colonial women unusual respect and authority. Flexible legal practices and the family's role as a model for New England's social order also added to the rights these women could claim to protection and property. In 1970, writing about Plymouth colony, John Demos

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“This Evil Extends Especially…To The Feminine Sex”: Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands

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Recovering Mestiza Genealogies in Contemporary New Mexican Art: Delilah Montoya’s El Sagrado Corazón (1993)

Recovering Mestiza Genealogies in Contemporary New Mexican Art: Delilah Montoya’s El Sagrado Corazón (1993)

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