The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940

Notes

—227— Notes Archival sources are given in full the first time they appear in each chapter. Preface 1. Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States (1948; reprint, New York: Greenwood Publishers, 1968), 288; Carey McWilliams, The Education of Carey McWilliams (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), 98–115, 176–79; Daniel Geary, “Carey McWilliams and Antifascism, 1934–1943,” Journal of American History 90, no. 3 (December 2003): 912–34; Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London: Verso, 1996), 445–54; Louis Adamic, ed., Common Ground (New York: Common Council for American Unity, 1940–49). 2. McWilliams, North from Mexico, 35–47. Douglas Monroy has written extensively on the fantasy heritage in his numerous publications; see Douglas Monroy Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 263–71; Douglas Monroy, “The Creation and Re-creation of Californio Society,” in Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush, ed. Ramón Gutiérrez and Richard Orsi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 173–77; and Douglas Monroy, Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 151–58. 3. Charles Montgomery has termed the phenomenon as a “modern Spanish heritage,” the publicly consumable image of Indian and Spanish and Mexican history . See Charles Montgomery, The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico’s Upper Rio Grande (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 11–16. 4. Carey McWilliams, Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1946), 70–83. 5. McWilliams, North from Mexico, 304; William Deverell, “Privileging the Mission Over the Mexican: The Rise of Regional Identity in Southern California,” in Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity, ed. David Wrobel and Michael Steiner (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1997), 235–58; Carlos Larralde and Richard Griswold del Castillo, “North from Mexico: Carey McWilliams’ Tragedy,” Southern California Quarterly 80, no. 2 (summer 1998): 231–45; Catherine Corman, “Teaching—and Learning from—Carey McWilliams,” California History 80, no. 4 (winter 2001–2002): 205–24; Jeff Lustig, “California Studies and California Politics: Reflections on the Sesquicentennial,” California History 77, no. 3 (fall 1998): 131–39; 228 Notes to Pages xvi–xviii Leonard Pitt, Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846–1890 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 277–96. 6. Kevin Starr, Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 92–93; Kevin Starr, Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 87–89; Chris Wilson, The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997), 181–231. 7. Robert Rydell, All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876–1916 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984); Robert Rydell, World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993); Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Mexico at the World’s Fairs: Crafting a Modern Nation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996); Burton Benedict, ed., The Anthropology of World’s Fairs: San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 (Berkeley: Scolar Press, 1983); Phoebe Kropp, “‘There Is a Little Sermon in That’: Constructing the Native Southwest at the San Diego Panama-California Exposition of 1915,” in The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway, ed. Barbara Babcock and Marta Weigle (Phoenix, AZ: Heard Museum, 1996). The exception to this standard critique of world’s fairs is James Gilbert’s excellent Perfect Cities: Chicago’s Utopias of 1893 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). 8. Eric Hobsbawm, “Introduction: Inventing Traditions” and “MassProducing Traditions: Europe, 1870–1914,” both in The Invention of Tradition, ed. Eric Hobsbawm and Terrence Ranger (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 1–14 and 263–307; see the chapters on Charles Lummis and George Wharton James in Sherry Smith, Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes, 1880–1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 3–18, 119–62; on “cultural nationalism” in the Southwest, see Molly Mullin, Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 10–37; note Kate Phillips’s rigorous and sympathetic treatment of Helen Hunt Jackson’s legacy in Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). 9. Benedict...