Indian given : racial geographies across Mexico and the United States
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Indian given : racial geographies across Mexico and the United States
(Latin America otherwise)
Duke University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-317) and index
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In Indian Given Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldana-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, Saldana-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and the United States.
Table of Contents
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 Barbaro in the U.S. Courts (1869-1954) 154
5. Losing It! Melancholic Incorporations in Aztlan 195
Conclusion. The Afterlives of the Indio Barbaro 233
Notes 259
Bibliography 299
Index 319
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