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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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...
