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Synopsis
In a social-reform novel decades ahead of its time, Marķa Amparo Ruiz de Burton delivered a sharp condemnation of the United States’ marginalization of Californios in the decades following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The Mexican American War has ended, but in a California divided between two nations, Anglo squatters continue to antagonize citizens of Mexican descent by making claims on their land. Against this charged backdrop, the lives of the Alamar family―the rightful owners of a San Diego ranch―become politically, economically, and romantically entwined with a family of New England settlers, the Darrells.
Inspired by experiences in her own life, Ruiz de Burton insightfully captured a troubling time in American history―a period of intense corruption, greed, racism, and classism. And after more than a century, the novel’s themes resonate as strongly as the powerful love story at its heart.
Revised edition: Previously published as The Squatter and the Don, this edition of The Squatter and the Don (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.
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About the Author
Marķa Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832‒1895) was an entrepreneur, businesswoman, playwright, and novelist considered to be the first Mexican American author to publish in English. Ruiz de Burton was born to prominent social standing in Loreto, Baja California. Though she was an American citizen, she was loyal to her cultural roots, which afforded her an ideal and deeply personal perspective from which to view the political tempest brewing on both sides of the US‒Mexico border. It was through her fiction that Ruiz de Burton tackled such crucial issues as ethnicity, gender equality, racism, and discrimination. She is the author of the novels Who Would Have Thought It? and The Squatter and the Don, both drawn from her own experiences, as well as the play Don Quixote de la Mancha: A Comedy in Five Acts: Taken from Cervantes’ Novel of That Name.
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