Traces of Intimacy: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and the Borderlands of Race Volume 78

Name: Traces of Intimacy: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and the Borderlands of Race Volume 78
Brand: University of California Press
Author: Jedediah H. Kuhn
ISBN: 9780520415843

by Jedediah H. Kuhn

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Named a 2026 Fall book to read by the Los Angeles TimesTraces of Intimacy charts the shifting racial ideas about Native Americans and Mexican Americans from the Gold Rush to the age of mass incarceration. Developing a reading practice that illuminates how both groups navigated their proximity to each other amid settler colonialism and legal and cultural change, this book provides a relational history of Native and Mexican American racialization. Focusing on the entangled Sierra borderlands of Nevada and California, Jedediah H. Kuhn reads across histories, archives, and cultural texts to reveal that, despite their divergence as racial categories, Native and Mexican Americans have lived intimately as lovers, friends, neighbors, and rivals. As Kuhn demonstrates, these communities have strategically affirmed or denied their intimate connection to survive colonization. Through a series of case studies expanding how we think about intimacy—as recognition, sex, family, imagination, and violence—Kuhn presents a new way of understanding Native and Mexican Americans' deeply entwined pasts, presents, and futures.