Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822359883)

In Indian Given Mar a Josefina Salda a-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Salda a-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, Salda a-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and the United States.

Author: Mar僘 Josefina Salda-Portillo
ISBN-10: 082235988X
ISBN-13: 9780822359883
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2016
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2017