Call for Papers (critical anthology)

The Llaneros: The Ethnic Mexican Southern Great Plains, 1540-1880

The Llaneros collection seeks to correct a historical gap and cultural silencing of the ethnic Mexican and Spanish-speaking presence and influence on the Southern Great Plains region from the time of Coronado’s journey to Quivira until the cattle ranching era. We seek essays on the subjects of plains indigenous and genizaro/Hispanic relationships; lifeways and economics including trade, hunting, farming, and grazing; cultural relationships to landscape and animals in the region; topics related to ethnic removals and historical silencing in the region; and other cultural activities in areas of present-day eastern New Mexico, northwest Texas, southwest Kansas, southeast Colorado, and western Oklahoma. This project is supported by the West Texas A&M NEH Forgotten Frontera grant for Hispanic Serving Institutions. Please send 500 word abstracts to Alex Hunt. (ahunt@wtamu.edu) by May 1, 2023.