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Indian given : racial geographies across Mexico and the United States / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina, 1961-
- Series:
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mestizos--Race identity--History.
- Mestizos.
- Indians, Treatment of--Mexican-American Border Region--History.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Mexican-American Border Region--Race relations--Political aspects--History.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374923
- 0822374927
- OCLC:
- 945742031
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