Description: "Despite their explicit goals of colonization and conversion, California missions are just beginning to receive more robust critical scholarly attention that centers Indigenous perspectives on their complex histories and legacies. In this book, Charles Sepulveda foregrounds concerns of gender, sexuality, enslavement, and genocide in reconsidering Spanish mission histories"--
Brief description: Charles Sepulveda is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside.
Review Quotes:
"Sepulveda's history is steeped in an ethos of care and relationality that endures to the close of the book. . . . Beyond its vital contributions to California history, California Indian studies, and California mission studies, Native Alienation is a significant contribution to the literature in comparative colonial history."
-- "California History"