Indian given : racial geographies across Mexico and the United States / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina, 1961- author.

Series:

Latin America otherwise

Latin America otherwise: languages, empire, nations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mestizos--Race identity--History.

Mestizos.

Indians, Treatment of--Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

History.

Mexican-American Border Region--Race relations--Political aspects--History.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

xi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous background based on their location. In this and other ways, she demonstrates how the legacies of colonial Spain's and Britain's differing approaches to encountering indigenous peoples continue to shape perceptions of the natural, racial, and cultural landscapes of the United States and Mexico. Drawing on a mix of archival, historical, literary, and legal texts, Saldaña-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and the United States. Book jacket.

Contents:

Savages welcomed : imputations of indigenous humanity in early colonialisms

Affect in the archive : apostates, profligates, petty thieves, and the Indians of the Spanish and U.S. borderlands

Mapping economies of death : from Mexican independence to the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Adjudicating exception : the fate of the Indio Bárbaro in the U.S. courts (1869-1954)

Losing it! melancholic incorporations in Aztlán.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317) and index.

ISBN:

9780822359883

082235988X

9780822360148

0822360144

OCLC:

903675197