Indian Given : Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

ISBN 10: 082235988X / ISBN 13: 9780822359883

Editore: Duke University Press Mär 2016, 2016

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titolo: Indian Given : Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
• Editore: Duke University Press Mär 2016
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 082235988X
• ISBN 13: 9780822359883
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 157 A x 23 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 157 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 590 grammi

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Riassunto

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.

 

Informazioni sull?autore

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.