{"599196":{"#nid":"599196","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Carla Gerona Examines Disappearances on the Early American Borderlands","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile many still describe the \u0026ldquo;shipwreck\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;enslavement\u0026rdquo; of Cabeza de Vaca as an epic story of an individual who overcame all odds to survive in unknown lands, Carla Gerona, associate professor of history in the School of History and Sociology, offers a new take in \u0026ldquo;Los Desaparecidos in the Gulf Coast and Early Texas Borderlands.\u0026rdquo; This essay connects Cabeza de Vaca\u0026rsquo;s expedition to earlier Spanish entries, as well as Hernando de Soto\u0026rsquo;s follow-up incursion into Mississippian lands. Instead of romanticizing Cabeza de Vaca and the three other \u0026ldquo;survivors,\u0026rdquo; Gerona shows that the men created a trail of destruction that caused disappearances for Spaniards and Indians alike. Gerona\u0026rsquo;s article aims to see past the heroic veneers to uncover the distress the disappearances caused. This legacy of desaparecidos \u0026mdash; the disappeared \u0026mdash; was a central component of the borderlands that continues to mark borderlands stories and contested spaces today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=9780813054957\u0022\u003ERead\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=9780813054957\u0022\u003EBorderlands Narratives\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eand find out about the borderlands people who disappeared, and the ways they reappeared in European and indigenous cultural texts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile many still describe the \u0026ldquo;shipwreck\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;enslavement\u0026rdquo; of Cabeza de Vaca as an epic story of an individual who overcame all odds to survive in unknown lands, Carla Gerona, associate professor of history in the School of History and Sociology, offers a new take in \u0026ldquo;Los Desaparecidos in the Gulf Coast and Early Texas Borderlands.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Gerona\u2019s new article in Borderlands Narratives considers the fate of people who disappeared in the early southwest. The essay explores the magnitude of destruction on the emergent borderlands, and offers a fresh perspective on Cabeza de Vaca\u0027s exploits."}],"uid":"33693","created_gmt":"2017-11-28 14:34:48","changed_gmt":"2017-12-04 15:21:48","author":"Kayleigh Haskin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599195":{"id":"599195","type":"image","title":"Borderland Narratives","body":null,"created":"1511879675","gmt_created":"2017-11-28 14:34:35","changed":"1511879675","gmt_changed":"2017-11-28 14:34:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228432","name":"06012017190122_500x500.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/06012017190122_500x500.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/06012017190122_500x500.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14994,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/06012017190122_500x500.jpg?itok=yzmcpGto"}}},"media_ids":["599195"],"groups":[{"id":"473211","name":"_OLD: School of History and Sociology Student Blog"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172801","name":"HSOC news"},{"id":"166851","name":"HSOC research"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}