Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States - Couverture rigide

Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 082235988X ISBN 13 : 9780822359883

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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/as 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, also published by Duke University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082235988X
• ISBN 13: 9780822359883
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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