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Dreams of Small Countries

How Californios, Land Conflicts, and Race Shaped the Golden State

Av Camille Suárez

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Prior to US conquest, a group of elite, mixed-race Mexicans called Californios nurtured the dream of patria chica (“small homeland”) in what is now the state of California. Californios' settler dreams of wealth and privilege depended upon controlling Indigenous land and labor, but after Anglo settlers and the US Army arrived, Californios struggled to hold onto their own way of life. Camille 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 worked together to subjugate Indigneous peoples and exclude non-white residents. However, Californios failed to see that their own lands and power stood 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 actors from the beginning of the US-Mexico War through the Civil War and Reconstruction, Dreams of Small Countries reexamines the origins of California statehood and explains how California became a white settler state.
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Camille Suárez is assistant professor of history at Cornell University.

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“A revealing reexamination of California’s long-hidden history. Suárez places ethnic-Mexican Californios at its center, showing how their visions for Alta California were intimately entangled in contests with Anglo Americans, Indigenous peoples, Chinese immigrants, and others.” —Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History“Suárez reestablishes Californios to their rightful place as crucial political brokers who originated multiracial politics in California in surprising and unexpected ways.” —Rosina Lozano, author of An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States“A welcome addition to the small but growing literature on Californios and a necessary read for understanding their position in Anglo-settler society.”—Stacey L. Smith, Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction“Suárez enriches and complicates our understanding of the development of California and its institutions.”—David Samuel Torres-Rouff, Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781–1894

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