Bandits and Californio identity in the second half of the nineteenth century: Tiburcio Vasquez
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Bandit, California, nineteenth century, liminality, bilingualism, CalifornioAbstract
The bandit Tiburcio Vasquez developed his career at a time of political and social struggle for California and the Californios, given that they became part of the United States of America after 1848. This paper examines the bilingual interview that Vasquez gave the day before his death sentence, together with other documentary sources about him in English and Spanish. I use the conceptual frame of liminality in order to expose the tools used to folklorize the past of the Californios. I examine conceptualizations about Vasquez, and who defined them, and the conclude that the Californio bandits, and especially Vasquez, represent the partial dissolution of the Californio identity, under pressure from the new social and political framework imposed by the United States.
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