This article examines Anglo-American colonization in nineteenth-century Texas and the construction of its historical memory, highlighting the interwoven roles of kinship, women’s labor, and gendered ideology. Building upon social, economic, and cultural roots in the U.S. Southeast, settler colonialism in Texas was a multi-generational project structured heavily by kinship. Anglo-Texan women served as active colonial agents through their productive and reproductive labor, which bound them firmly to more overt forms of colonial violence by men and the emerging state. In the face of Native resistance, Anglo-Texans highlighted Indigenous acts of violence against White women and families in order to invert responsibility for colonial violence and to justify the dispossession and destruction of Native peoples. Beginning as early as the 1830s, direct Anglo participants, including many influential women, wrote the first histories of Texas colonization, interpreting that process and its violence from within the deeply gendered and personal framework of kinship. Their efforts have marked both popular memory and historical scholarship to the present day.

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“没有一个国家会超越它的家园，没有一个家园会超越它的母亲”：19 世纪德克萨斯州的性别、记忆和殖民暴力

本文考察了 19 世纪德克萨斯州的英美殖民化及其历史记忆的构建，突出了亲属关系、女性劳动和性别意识形态的交织作用。基于美国东南部的社会、经济和文化根源，得克萨斯州的定居者殖民主义是一个由亲属关系构成的多代项目。盎格鲁-德克萨斯妇女通过她们的生产性和再生产劳动充当积极的殖民代理人，这将她们牢牢地束缚在男性和新兴国家更公开的殖民暴力形式中。面对原住民的抵抗，盎格鲁-德克萨斯人强调了原住民对白人妇女和家庭的暴力行为，以扭转对殖民暴力的责任，并为剥夺和破坏原住民的行为辩护。早在 1830 年代，直接的盎格鲁参与者，包括许多有影响力的女性，撰写了德克萨斯殖民的第一批历史，从深刻的性别和个人亲属关系框架内解释了这一过程及其暴力。直到今天，他们的努力已经成为大众记忆和历史学术的标志。