Indian Given Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
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Biografisk notat
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.Indian Given Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
"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. <i>Indian Given</i> 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) “<i>Indian Given</i> 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)
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
"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. <i>Indian Given</i> 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) “<i>Indian Given</i> 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)
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