History

Author: Stacy Fahrenthold

Authors: Andrés Reséndez, Brian M. Kemp, et. al. The skeletal remains of 23 of 27 Post-Classic Aztec individuals from Tlatelolco, Mexico, were found to contain analyzable mtDNA. These samples were screened for the markers that define the five founding Native American haplogroups.

Author: Cecilia Tsu. In Garden of the World, Tsu tells the overlooked, intertwined histories of the Santa Clara Valley's agricultural past and the Asian immigrants who cultivated the land during the region's peak decades of horticultural production.

Authors: Brian M. Kemp, Ripan S. Malhi, Andrés Reséndez, et al. The Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis posits that prehistoric population expansions, precipitated by the innovation or early adoption of agriculture, played an important role in the uneven distribution of language families recorded across the world.

Authors: Ripan S. Malhi, Angelica Gonzales-Oliver, Andrés Reséndez, et al. In this study, 231 Y chromosomes from 12 populations were typed for four diagnostic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to determine haplogroup membership and 43 Y chromosomes from three of these populations were typed for eight short tandem repeats (STRs) to determine haplotypes.

Author: Cecilia Tsu. This study of boosterism and everyday agricultural labor practices in the Santa Clara Valley during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries reveals how the presence of Chinese immigrants in rural California forced white growers to reconceptualize the cherished family farm ideal in a new racial framework.

Authors: Andrés Reséndez and Brian M. Kemp. In this report, they will survey the DNA literature most relevant to historians of Latin America (especially those working in Mexico and the American Southwest) and discuss how the genetic evidence jibes with their socially constructed notions of race and ethnicity.

Author: Andrés Reséndez. The literature depicts state formation and nation building as originating from the core outward and from top to bottom. Sitting at the apex of all political and social organizations, the state has been granted the leading role.

Author: Cecilia Tsu. The chapters on rural lives provide an entrée into the social and cultural history of rural peoples – women, children and men – as well as a description of some of the forces shaping rural communities, such as immigration, race and religious difference.