Race and classification : the case of Mexican America / edited by Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith ; with a preface by William B. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deans-Smith, Susan, 1953-

Katzew, Ilona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Mexico--History--Congresses.

Ethnicity.

Ethnicity--Southwestern States--History--Congresses.

Race in art--Congresses.

Race in art.

Race in literature--Congresses.

Race in literature.

Racism--Mexico--History--Congresses.

Racism.

Racism--Southwestern States--History--Congresses.

Mexico--Race relations--Congresses.

Mexico.

Southwestern States--Race relations--Congresses.

Southwestern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population, to the present. The distinguished contributors to the volume bring into dialogue sophisticated new scholarship from an impressive range of disciplines, including social and cultural history, art history, legal studies, and performance art. The essays provide an engaging and original framework for

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: The Alchemy of Race in Mexican America; 1. The Language, Genealogy, and Classification of "Race" in Colonial Mexico; 2. "Dishonor in the Hands of Indians, Spaniards, and Blacks": The (Racial) Politics of Painting in Early Modern Mexico; 3. "That This Should Be Published and Again in the Age of the Enlightenment?" Eighteenth-Century Debates About the Indian Body in Colonial Mexico; 4. Moctezuma Through the Centuries; 5. Eugenics and Racial Classification in Modern Mexican America

6. Hispanic Identities in the Southwestern United States7. Race and Erasure: The Hernandez v. Texas Case; 8. Reconfiguring Race, Gender, and Chicano/a Identity in Film; 9. Pose and Poseur: The Racial Politics of Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Photo-Performances; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

"This book originated with a conference organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth-Century Mexico, on May 1, 2004"--Acknowl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804772587

0804772584

OCLC:

609855914