Saldaña-Portillo / Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo Indian Given

Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7492-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saldaña-Portillo, María Josefina

Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, Saldana-Portillo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.