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Reading Notes WK5, Part A: De Burton

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1894)
·     Born to an elite Mexican family
·     She wrote the first novel by a Mexican woman
o  The novel was to inform and tell the fictional defense of one of California founding peoples and a sharp expose of the common practice of land “squatting.”

The Squatter and the Don
·     It prints the picture of what the 19thcentury after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
·     Gives a voice to native Californios/Mexicans
·     Ruiz de Burton provides a clear definition of squatters and settlers, and their relationship with the west.
·     De Burton tries to give voice to all the people that in other novels don't have voice.
·     The squatter of the title is Darrell, who agrees to pay the Don for the land he’s homesteading.
·     Theme: the struggle between those with Spanish decent and the Anglo-American squatters who threatened their land.
o  Family’s problem with the American government
o  Discrimination against them based upon their race
o  Anger
·     Definition of a squatter: Someone who settles on land under government regulation in order to acquire title.
o  to think wisely before taking land away from someone who has done them no harm
o  Invasion of land
o  Expansionism


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