The archaeology of San Diego, Texas : memories media and material culture of the site of an irredentist rebellion

dc.contributor.advisorStross, Brian
dc.creatorGarza, Eunice Carmelaen
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-24T22:06:01Zen
dc.date.issued2013-12en
dc.date.submittedDecember 2013en
dc.date.updated2015-02-24T22:06:01Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractEl Plan de San Diego is the name of an important document in Texas history, but the document and surrounding history is usually discussed with little or no reference to the town of San Diego, Texas, the people who lived there, or the cultural landscape. The Plan de San Diego is an unsuccessful rebellion that is one of the few documented irredentist revolts in U.S. History, it is also a written document calling for return of lands in a multi-ethnic call to arms advocating the recovery of territory by people of Mexican descent in 1915, named for the town San Diego, TX. After the discovery of this Plan, Mexican-Americans were persecuted, violently suppressed, and murdered: 300-5,000 people of Mexican descent died violently following the discovery and publication of the Plan de San Diego in what historians have called the “Bandit Wars”. San Diego, Texas residents and the entire U.S.-Mexican borderlands changed after the discovery of the Plan. My research investigates the political landscape and changes in material and cultural assemblages during and after the Plan, examining how descendant communities retained ties to place and remembered this event in the community of San Diego. Archival research, Historical archaeology and media representations of San Diego explore expose the everyday lives, settlement patterns, and subsistence strategies of the residents of San Diego before and after 1915, showing the material and social effects of the failed rebellion. The socio-political landscape that helped create Mexican-American culture in San Diego is a silenced, violent, and misunderstood chapter of Texas history that shapes the current borderlands and contributes important insights into the study of sites of rebellion and retaliation worldwide.en
dc.description.departmentAnthropologyen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/28682en
dc.subjectPlan de San Diegoen
dc.subjectTexasen
dc.subjectHistoryen
dc.subjectHistoric archaeologyen
dc.subjectIrredentismen
dc.subjectMexican Americanen
dc.subjectTejanoen
dc.subjectBandit warsen
dc.subjectTexas Rangersen
dc.subjectDuval County, Texasen
dc.subjectSan Diego, Texasen
dc.titleThe archaeology of San Diego, Texas : memories media and material culture of the site of an irredentist rebellionen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropologyen
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropologyen
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen

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