{"id":3240,"date":"2024-02-12T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3240"},"modified":"2024-02-12T20:15:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:15:44","slug":"border-bodies-racialized-sexuality-sexual-capital-and-violence-in-the-19th-century-borderlands","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/event\/border-bodies-racialized-sexuality-sexual-capital-and-violence-in-the-19th-century-borderlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernadine Marie Hern\u00e1ndez: Border Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Macaulay Hall, 101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Marxisms Seminar are pleased to welcome Professor Bernadine Marie Hernandez<\/strong> (English, University of New Mexico) for a conversation about her recent book,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Border Bodies. Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hern\u00e1ndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history. Elaborating on the concept of sexual capital, she uses little-known newspapers and periodicals, letters, testimonios, court cases, short stories, and photographs to reveal how sex, violence, and capital conspired to govern not only women\u2019s bodies but their role in the changing American Southwest. Hern\u00e1ndez focuses on a time when the borderlands saw a rapid influx of white settlers who encountered elite landholding Californios, Hispanos, and Tejanos. Sex was inseparable from power in the borderlands, and women were integral to the stabilization of that power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In drawing these stories from the archive, Hern\u00e1ndez illuminates contemporary ideas of sexuality through the lens of the borderland\u2019s history of expansionist, violent, and gendered conquest. By extension, Hern\u00e1ndez argues that Mexicana, Nuevomexicana, Californiana, and Tejana women were key actors in the formation of the western United States, even as they are too often erased from the region\u2019s story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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