{"title":"Gangs of the El Paso–Juárez Borderland: A History by Mike Tapia (review)","authors":"J. Adler","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":"41 1","pages":"154 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44631887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moonshining in Holt County, Nebraska","authors":"Keith Terry","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During Prohibition in the US, many in the Great Plains were involved in the illegal production, distribution, sale, possession, and consumption of illicit alcohol. Some were Americans who were already well established in the country, and others were relative newcomers who still embraced traditions, practices, and ideals of their home countries. This research seeks to determine if first- and second-generation immigrants committed more infractions of Prohibition laws in one Nebraska county than did those who had assimilated over a longer period of time.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":"41 1","pages":"125 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44477936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding Father: Stories from Mennonite Daughters ed. by Mary Ann Loewen (review)","authors":"R. Janzen","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":"41 1","pages":"151 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47483205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race, Region, and Midwestern Identity in Era Bell Thompson's American Daughter and Africa, Land of My Fathers","authors":"Sara Gallagher","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Era Bell Thompson's autobiography, American Daughter (1946), and her travel memoir, Africa, Land of My Fathers (1954), to consider how she articulates the relationship between race and region. My approach to American Daughter examines how African American western women contribute to a \"re-presentation\" of region apart from dominant (white, male) representations. Using Katherine McKittrick's ideas as a framework, I argue that American Daughter revises traditional presentations of region to reflect the African American woman's experiences in the early twentieth-century Midwest. The analysis of American Daughter leads into a discussion about how Thompson represents the relationship between race and place in Africa, Land of My Fathers. In Africa, as in American Daughter, Thompson, while traveling the continent, experiences a palpable double estrangement that reflects the tensions between her ethnic and national identities. Thompson's journey through the continent represents a reversal of the frontier journey. Thompson's African memoir also sheds light on the significance of regional identity in global interactions during the mid-twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":"41 1","pages":"59 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48032675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughan (review)","authors":"Stephanie A. Marcellus","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"160 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48030959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend by Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown (review)","authors":"James E. Mueller","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"men who navigated often hostile terrain to find athletic and academic success. An important claim Jacobus makes is that, despite differences in racial tensions from one city to the next, common themes often reverberated as African Americans negotiated a nuanced Jim Crow system designed to keep African Americans in an inferior status. Jacobus also argues that resistance to desegregation could be explained by the demographics and geography of a particular desegregating town. According to Jacobus, for cities where African American populations were smaller in size, the process of desegregation was easier than in spaces where the numbers of black residents were large enough to rival their white counterparts. Jacobus also claims that proximity to the former Confederacy helped to determine resistance to desegregation. The result was that spaces like Dallas, Houston, and East Texas were slower to desegregate while spaces like Corpus Christi and San Antonio desegregated relatively early. One of the reasons Jacobus’s text is valuable is that it analyzes the reasons why black players elected to stay at black high schools or colleges and why they chose to enter desegregated spaces. Jacobus probes black former student athletes who traveled outside the South to play college football. He reveals that close ties, academic resources, and the presence of other black students helped to provide black student athletes with enough incentive to persist, matriculate, and ultimately graduate from white colleges located outside the South. Jacobus’s book is an excellent addition to the study of school desegregation and the desegregation of sports institutions. This is a text for both fans and scholars of sport history. It uses firstperson accounts to explain how players— black, white, and Latino, along with their coaches— negotiated this complex set of social, political, and athletic issues related to desegregation in the post– Brown v. Board of Education era to achieve athletic and academic success.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"169 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44289583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David C. Beyreis, T. M. Foster, John Beusterien, Sophie Farthing, M. Holt, Hana Waisserová, R. Russell, Sebastian Felix Braun, A. Mazurkiewicz, Stephanie A. Marcellus, Trevor J. Wideman, Yve Chavez, C. Finnegan, Kirsten Wolf, M. D'amore, J. Fikes, Pierre M. Atlas, J. Morsette, J. Guillory, James E. Mueller, Richard Hughes
{"title":"Bricklayers, Bronc Busters, and \"Peddlers from the Spanish Country\": Nuevomexicanos and the Paradox of Labor and Trade in the Great Plains, 1834–1884","authors":"David C. Beyreis, T. M. Foster, John Beusterien, Sophie Farthing, M. Holt, Hana Waisserová, R. Russell, Sebastian Felix Braun, A. Mazurkiewicz, Stephanie A. Marcellus, Trevor J. Wideman, Yve Chavez, C. Finnegan, Kirsten Wolf, M. D'amore, J. Fikes, Pierre M. Atlas, J. Morsette, J. Guillory, James E. Mueller, Richard Hughes","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the mid-nineteenth century, Nuevomexicano workers and traders played a crucial but paradoxical role in Great Plains economic and political life. Expert artisans, superb livestock wranglers, and shrewd bargainers, they were essential to the solidification of fur trade infrastructure and trade along the Santa Fe Trail. Yet the same skills that made these men successful—especially their successful dealings with Native peoples—also made them targets of Anglo-American suspicion, fear, and resentment. The same entrepreneurs who valued Nuevomexicano labor and skill worried that these traders represented a threat to the United States' tenuous hold on the region. Between the tense years preceding the US-Mexican War and the end of the Red River War in 1875, territorial officials and military officers attempted to restrict the movement and activities of Nuevomexicano traders and hunters, with little success. Not until the final confinement of the Comanche and Kiowa to reservations in Indian Territory did commerce end and these men cease to be viewed as a potential threat to Anglo-American sovereignty in the Great Plains.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"1 - 126 - 127 - 145 - 147 - 15 - 157 - 159 - 160 - 160 - 161 - 161 - 162 - 162 - 163 - 163 - 163 - 1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43735530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma by Gunlög Fur (review)","authors":"Yve Chavez","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"difficult to find. Moreover, the book tends to treat Winnipeg in isolation, as its relationships to other cities, and the effects of upperlevel jurisdictions on municipal politics, are not well explored. That said, Blanchard’s book does a good job of chronicling a decade of Winnipeg history that to date has been underrepresented in scholarship. Scholars of Winnipeg and of Manitoba in the early twentieth century will find this book to be a helpful reference to guide their historical investigations.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"162 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49129963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}