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Session 5—Kinship and Genocide in California
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Benjamin Madley, Erika Pérez, Christina Maria Salazar, Helen Louise Salazar, Anthea M. Hartig  This panel focuses on California’s colonial history, examining kinship systems, the role of missions, the catastrophic loss experienced during the U.S. territorial period, as well as the survival of Indigenous culture today through historic and cultural preservation. Benjamin Madley, PhD, is associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world history. Born in Redding, California, he spent much of his childhood in Karuk Country near the Oregon border where he became interested in relationships between colonizers and Indigenous peoples. Educated at Yale and Oxford, he writes about Native Americans as well as colonialism in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach. Yale University Press published his first book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873. This book received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, the Charles Redd Center/Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book on the American West, the California Book Awards Gold Medal for Californiana, the Heyday Books History Award, and the Norman Neuerburg Award from the Historical Society of Southern California. It was also named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, an Indian Country Today Hot List book, a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title, and a Caroline Bancroft History Prize Honor Book. True West Magazine named Madley the Best New Western Author of 2016. In 2018, he received the California Commendation Medal from the Military Department of the State of California. According to former California Governor Jerry Brown, "Madley corrects the record with his gripping story of what really happened: the actual genocide of a vibrant civilization, thousands of years in the making." Erika Pérez, PhD, is associate professor of history at the University of Arizona in Tucson and an affiliate of gender and women’s studies and Latin American studies. She is an historian of the United States, Mexican Americans, gender and sexuality, and colonial processes (past and present) in North American borderlands regions and the U.S. Southwest. Born and raised in Cerritos, California, she became interested in U.S. history after learning of her father’s military service during the Vietnam War, her family’s participation in the Chicano Movement, and the Spanish mission history unit required of all California fourth graders. Educated at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and UCLA, Pérez became interested in interethnic encounters between Indigenous peoples and Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo colonizers, colonial rule and acts of community resistance during California’s geopolitical transitions, and Catholic and Indigenous kinship practices that furthered colonization processes and offered avenues for resistance and survival. She has written about biethnic families and identity-formation among biethnic children, women as community-builders and as godmothers, Indigenous survival strategies, sexual violence under colonial rule, and state regulation of sexuality and gender. Her first book entitled Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885 was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2018. She received the Coalition for Western Women’s History Armitage-Jameson Book Prize in 2019 for most outstanding monograph in western women’s, gender, and sexuality history. She has begun new research on nineteenth-century California’s laws and municipal codes targeting vice and sex work, women’s occupational choices, and evolving understandings of children’s rights, statutory rape, and age of consent at the turn of the twentieth century. At the University of Arizona, Pérez teaches an array of history courses on women in the U.S., Mexican Americans, comparative history of witchcraft panics, comparative borderlands, and twentieth-century U.S. sports history (she is a former Division I student-athlete at UC Berkeley).
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1 hr 22 min 46 sec
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