Series 4. Utopian Perspectives on the American Southwest
Jim Hopkins is an Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Clements Department of History at SMU
The American Southwest has long been a place where those fleeing the modern, industrial culture of the West have sought a “homeland of the imagination.” Whether by establishing a utopian socialist colony, as was the case of La Reunion, or idealizing the pueblo culture of northern New Mexico, as did Mabel Dodge Luhan and friends such as British novelist D.H. Lawrence, or the young men and women of the counter-culture of the 1960s, they sought a model of peaceful, spiritual, and creative living.
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