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Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo
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Description for Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
Paperback. In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-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. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldana-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 ... Read more
In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldana-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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Latin America Otherwise
Condition
New
Weight
523g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822360148
SKU
V9780822360148
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About Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo
Maria Josefina Saldana-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.
Reviews for Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
Saldana-Portillo illuminates the racial process in which indigenous people have been central to the continuous colonial and national space-making projects of Mexico and the United States.
Jorge Ramirez
Radical History Review
Indian Given will be of great interest to scholars and university students who explore issues of Indigeneity in Mexico and the United States. Its ... Read more
Jorge Ramirez
Radical History Review
Indian Given will be of great interest to scholars and university students who explore issues of Indigeneity in Mexico and the United States. Its ... Read more