Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

Published by Duke University Press 2016

Indian Given

Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

In the series Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822374923

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"Saldana-Portillo’s monograph makes critical contributions to the fields of indigenous studies, borderlands studies, American studies, Mexican studies, Chicano/a studies, gender studies, transnational studies, western legal studies, and Southwest studies—just to name a few. Indian Given truly has the potential to help set the agenda in multiple disciplines."

-- John Gram H-Net Reviews

"An eclectic, informative, and entertaining work. . . . Saldaña-Portillo’s work will certainly be an eye-opener for anyone who picks it up."

-- F. Todd Smith American Historical Review

“Indian Given will be of great interest to scholars and university students who explore issues of Indigeneity in Mexico and the United States. Its interdisciplinary inquiry makes an important contribution to the ﬁeld of Indigenous studies.”

-- Emilio del Valle Escalante Native American and Indigenous Studies

"Saldaña-Portillo illuminates the racial process in which indigenous people have been central to the continuous colonial and national space-making projects of Mexico and the United States."

-- Jorge Ramirez Radical History Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN Indians in the Landscape of America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 SAVAGES WELCOMED Imputations of Indigenous Humanity in Early Colonialisms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2 AFFECT IN THE ARCHIVE Apostates, Profligates, Petty Thieves, and the Indians of the Spanish and U.S. Borderlands Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
3 MAPPING ECONOMIES OF DEATH From Mexican Independence to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
4 ADJUDICATING EXCEPTION The Fate of the Indio Bárbaro in the U.S. Courts (1869–1954) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
5 LOSING IT! Melancholic Incorporations in Aztlán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Conclusion. THE AFTERLIVES OF THE INDIO BÁRBARO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 15 illustrations

eBook

Published: March 31, 2016
ISBN: 9780822374923