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SUMMARY:Dreams of Small Countries Book Talk: Camille Suarez in conversatio
 n with Paul Ortiz
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 North Cayuga Street\, Ithaca\, NY
DESCRIPTION:BOOK LAUNCH: Join Assistant Prof Camille Suárez and Prof Paul 
 Ortiz for a conversation on Dreams of Small Countries: How Californios\, 
 Land Conflicts\, and Race Shaped the Golden State.\n\nPrior to US conques
 t\, a group of elite\, mixed-race Mexicans called Californios nurtured th
 e dream of patria chica (“small homeland”) in what is now the state of Ca
 lifornia. Californios' settler dreams of wealth and privilege depended up
 on controlling Indigenous land and labor\, but after Anglo settlers and t
 he US Army arrived\, Californios struggled to hold onto their own way of 
 life.\n\nCamille Suárez shows that rather than challenge the new regime\,
  elite Californios allied with both the US Army and Anglo settlers\, whom
  they viewed as racial counterparts\, to ensure that their dream survived
 . Despite their differences\, Californio and Anglo settlers initially wor
 ked together to subjugate Indigenous peoples and exclude non-white reside
 nts. However\, Californios failed to see that their own lands and power s
 tood in the way of the white settler state. Over time\, the legal regime 
 Californios helped shape undermined their own political power\, whiteness
 \, and claims to the land. By centering Californios as key political acto
 rs from the beginning of the US-Mexico War through the Civil War and Reco
 nstruction\, Dreams of Small Countries reexamines the origins of Californ
 ia statehood and explains how California became a white settler state.\n\
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