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Navigating The Shadows: Intersecting The Undocumented And Undocuqueer Identities, Iriana Balbian

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

This project analyzes the navigation of social experiences of Undocumented and Queer individuals amidst broad anti-queer and anti-immigration sentiment prevalent throughout American society. To achieve this goal, this project seeks to resolve three questions. First, what are the social services that Undocuqueer and Undocumented adults need? Second, are their needs fundamentally distinct? Finally, to what extent have they been able to access those services? Crenshaw’s (1994) theory of intersectionality will serve as the overarching theoretical framework of this project, in order to better understand the multifaceted marginalization that Undocumented and Undocuqueer individuals face with everyday institutions.

In this research, I …

Gender In Apocalyptic California: The Ecological Frontier, Marykate Eileen Messimer

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Climate change is the consequence of ideologies that promote human reproduction and resource consumption by sacrificing human justice, nonhuman species, and the land. Both biology and queer ecologies resist this notion of human separation and supremacy by showing that no body is a singular, impermeable entity, that all beings are biologically and inexorably connected. My dissertation demonstrates that fiction writers use this knowledge to locate a utopian vision that can counteract the dystopian impotence of living within climate change. This argument is founded on novels written by women and set in California, a state that uniquely inhabits a utopian and …

Wilgus, Donald Knight, 1918-1989 (Sc 3401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3401. Letter, 25 July 1960, to friends from Donald Knight Wilgus and family, Los Angeles, California, describing their activities and travel since moving to California, including Wilgus’s work at the University of California, Los Angeles. Includes a review of Wilgus’s book, Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898, and the premier issue (1963) of Hootenanny: The National Folk Singing Magazine, with an article about Wilgus and UCLA’s folk music studies program.

List Of Surveyed Private Grants Of California By Glo Number, Undated

National Archives Documents

A list in chronological in order by the General Land Office number for each private land grant made in California that had been surveyed by the time this document was created. It was prepared as part of the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.

Patented Land Grants Listed By Date Of Original Grants, Undated

National Archives Documents

A list of land grants organized by the date of the original Spanish land concession or Mexican land grant prepared under the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.

Meanings Of Rancho Names, 1938

National Archives Documents

A list prepared by a Work Progress Administration employee listing the land grants by General Land Office number and the corresponding rancho along with a translation of the rancho name.

Alphabetical Grantee List Of California Private Land Grants, Undated

National Archives Documents

An alphabetical listing of grantees of Spanish land concessions or Mexican land grants prepared under the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.

Alphabetical Index Of Private Land Grants, 1928

National Archives Documents

An alphabetical listing of California private land grants that was obtained from the 1928 General Land Office Map of California.

Chronological List Of Land Grants Made By Juan B. Alvarado, 1938

National Archives Documents

A chronological list of the private land grants made by Juan B. Alvarado between 1839 and 1842 prepared in connection with the Work Progress Administration program administered during the 1930s.

Meanings Of Rancho Names, 1938

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

A list prepared by a Work Progress Administration employee listing the land grants by General Land Office number and the corresponding rancho along with a translation of the rancho name.

Chronological List Of Land Grants Made By Juan B. Alvarado, 1938

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

A chronological list of the private land grants made by Juan B. Alvarado between 1839 and 1842 prepared in connection with the Work Progress Administration program administered during the 1930s.

Patented Land Grants Listed By Date Of Original Grants, Undated

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

A list of land grants organized by the date of the original Spanish land concession or Mexican land grant prepared under the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.

List Of Surveyed Private Grants Of California By Glo Number, Undated

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

A list in chronological in order by the General Land Office number for each private land grant made in California that had been surveyed by the time this document. It was prepared as part of the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.

Alphabetical Index Of Private Land Grants, 1938

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

An alphabetical listing of California private land grants that was obtained from the 1928 General Land Office Map of California prepared under the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.

Alphabetical Grantee List Of California Private Land Grants, Undated

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

An alphabetical listing of grantees of Spanish land concessions or Mexican land grants prepared in the 1930s under the Work Progress Administration program.

1849 - The Emigrant's Guide To New Mexico, California, And Oregon, John Disturnell

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The author, noting the desire for correct information in relation to the various routes, provided a detailed description and lists of the provisions and equipment needed for each option, distances involved and different routes (over land or via sea) that an emigrant in 1849 could travel to reach the U.S. Territories in the West: New Mexico, California and Oregon.

1849 - Address To The Inhabitants Of New Mexico And California On The Omission By Congress To Provide Them With Territorial Goverments And On The Social And Political Evils Of Slavery

Miscellaneous Federal Documents & Reports

This August 1849 letter, signed by twenty-one abolitionists, in which they wrote concerning the Southern States refusal to provide New Mexico and California with the advantages and protection of civil government. The authors detailed the sequence of events leading up to the annexation of New Mexico and California and the efforts to ensure that the new territories would permit the ownership of slaves. The letter discusses the morality of slavery.

1789 - Storia Della California, Francesco Saverio Clavigero

Miscellaneous Publications – Spanish

The history of Mexico collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts and old paintings of Indians, along with discussion of the animals and inhabitants of Mexico. Includes illustrated charts and copperplates. Clavigero was born at Vera Cruz, Mexico, September 9, 1731;, and he died in Bologna, Italy, on April 2, 1787. At the age of seventeen he entered the Society of Jesus. Subsequently, his attention was drawn Mto the valuable collection of documents on Mexican history and antiquities deposited there by Siguenza y Gongora, from which he derived much of his information.

1844 - The History Of Oregon And California And Other Territories, Robert Greenhow

Miscellaneous Publications – Mexican

Writing principally about the portion of North America border on the Pacific Ocean between the 40^th and 54^th parallels of latitude (Oregon), Greenhow found it necessary to also include the regions known as California that extended southward from the Columbia River to the Californian Gulf. Recognizing that the territories were becoming increasingly more important due to the advancement of the population of adjoining countries towards the territories; from the constant increase of the trade and navigation of several countries claiming powers in the Pacific. The difficulty of effecting an amicable partition of the territories was becoming more urgent. …

1844 - The History Of Oregon And California And Other Territories, Robert Greenhow

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

Writing principally about the portion of North America border on the Pacific Ocean between the 40^th and 54^th parallels of latitude (Oregon), Greenhow found it necessary to also include the regions known as California that extended southward from the Columbia River to the Californian Gulf. Recognizing that the territories were becoming increasingly more important due to the advancement of the population of adjoining countries towards the territories; from the constant increase of the trade and navigation of several countries claiming powers in the Pacific. The difficulty of effecting an amicable partition of the territories was becoming more urgent. …

1790 - An Historical Journal Of The Expeditions By Sea And Land To The North Of California In 1768, 1769 And 1770, Translated

Miscellaneous Publications – Spanish

An English translation published in 1790 of a Spanish journal of expeditions by sea and land to the north of California (Alta California) in 1768, 1769 and 1770. Also included is a description of the coast of California published in a Treatise of Navigation printed in Manila in 1734. A map of California by Don Miguel Costanso, the Engineer for the expedition was attached at the end of the translaton.

1791-1834 - Manuscript Records Of La Purisima Concepcion Mission, Biennial Reports (Work Progress Administration Translation)

Franciscan Publications

Translations of the manuscript records of La Purisima Concepcion Mission covering the period 1791 through 1834 made by students employed through the United States Work Progress Administration, Project No. 465-03-3-631, the reports detailed the activities at and population residing at the mission.

1879 - Droughts In California In 1805 And 1817, Mariano G. Vallejo

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

A handwritten transcription of a brief narrative by Mariano G. Vallejo (original in Spanish) describing the droughts of 1805 and 1817 experienced in California and the impact it had upon the people and land.

1851 - Monterey County, California, Assessment Roll

Annual Tax Records

A list of 1851 Monterey County taxpayers and the total number of acres on which they were assessed.

1914 - Bibliography Of The History Of California And The Pacific West, 1510-1906; Together With The Text Of John W Dwinelle's Address On Acquisition Of California By The United States, Robert Ernest Cowan

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The study of the bibliography of California, of which this printed essay was the result, began many years prior to 1914. The notes were made primarily as a guide to the collection of that class of books, and included all printed documents relating to the State with the exception of those of the newspaper and periodical presses. The publication lists about 1,000 titles up through 1905. The book also contains John W. Dwinelle’s “Address on the Acquisition of California by the United States.

1916 - The Establishment Of State Government In California, Cardinal Goodwin

Miscellaneous Federal Documents & Reports

This work covers the period in California history from 1846 to 1847. The introductory chapter traces, briefly, the extension of American influence over the territory from an early date to the complete of the conquest. Following the first chapter is a more detailed account of the period of military rule an the resulting political unrest. The work of the Convention of 1849 and the election, organization and enactments of the first Legislature have been given due consideration. Chapter 18 dealt with the admission of California into the Union and the final chapter contains statistics on the population, professions and occupations, …

1890 - Spanish Colonization In The Southwest, Frank Wilson Blackmar

Miscellaneous Publications – Spanish

This publication addressed Spanish policy relating to colonization, comparison of Spanish colonies with those of the Romans, attempts to settle California and New Mexico, the mission system, civic colonies (pueblo), presidios, presidial pueblo, and land grants to settlers.

1889 - Sixty Years In California, William Heath Davis

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The author, who arrived in Alta California in 1831, wrote about his extended experience as it related to the manners and customs of the people, their methods of trade, of social and political history of the Mexican government and of its successor, the Territory and then State of California, The book covers 60 years of history of events and life in California; the personal, political and military, under the Mexican Regime, during the quasi-military government of the Territory by the United States, and after the Admission of California into the Union. While the 63 chapters cover a broad and detailed …

1901 - The Transition Period Of California From A Province Of Mexico In 1846 To A State Of The American Union In 1850

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

A detailed description of events that transpired from 1846 when to 1850 when California became a state of the United States of America. The author gives a brief account of peoples already living in California and events preceding the war with Mexico. He discusses efforts by other countries to get a foothold in California, the war with Mexico, the treaty, the conventions held to establish California first as a territory and then as a state.