Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo

Indian Given

Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Latin America Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360148
• ISBN-10: 0822360144
• Artikelnr.: 42411798

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. It Remains to Be Seen: Indians in the Landscape of America  1
1. Savages Welcomed: Imputations of Indigenous Humanity in Early
Colonialisms  33
2. Affect in the Archive: Apostates, Profligates, Petty Thieves, and the
Indians of the Spanish and U.S. Borderlands  66
3. Mapping Economies of Death: From Mexican Independence to the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo  108
4. Adjudicating Exception: The Fate of the Indio Bárbaro in the U.S. Courts
(1869–1954)  154
5. Losing It! Melancholic Incorporations in Aztlán  195
Conclusion. The Afterlives of the Indio Bárbaro  233
Notes  259
Bibliography  299
Index  319