Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Latin America Otherwise)

Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina

ISBN 10: 0822360144 / ISBN 13: 9780822360148

Published by Duke University Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Latin America Otherwise)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822360144
• ISBN 13: 9780822360148
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.

 

About the Author

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.