Indian Given - Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States

Informationen zum Autor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Klappentext 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.¿ Zusammenfassung In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Maraia Josefina Saldaana-Portillo, Mar-A Josefina Saldaa-Portillo, Maria Jose Saldana-Portillo, Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780822359883
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5988-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology