This chapter maintains that the United States’ westward expansion into the greater southwest dispossessed Mexicans living in the region, creating their sense of deterritorialized alienation—the haunting feeling of not belonging in a place that was once home. Mexican American writers resist such displacement through narratives that express their right to civic equality in the United States and that re-imagine their belonging within the U.S. Narratives of displacement thus map the cultural changes that undergird Mexican American dispossession, including personal victimization and disenfranchisement; structural racism in laws and local authority; and language transition from Spanish to English. However, especially at the turn of the twentieth century, Mexican American cultural production, most notably by women, critique dispossession and disenfranchisement through writings as varied as editorials, political poems, novellas, and novels that reimagine Mexico and Mexicans back into the very places from which they had been dispossessed.