Indian Given

Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780822360148, 9780822359883
• eBook ISBN: 9780822374923
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Hispanic American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. It Remains to Be Seen: Indians in the Landscape of America
• 1. Savages Welcomed: Imputations of Indigenous Humanity in Early Colonialisms
• 2. Affect in the Archive: Apostates, Profligates, Petty Thieves, and the Indians of the Spanish and U.S. Borderlands
• 3. Mapping Economies of Death: From Mexican Independence to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• 4. Adjudicating Exception: The Fate of the Indio Bárbaro in the U.S. Courts (1869–1954)
• 5. Losing It!: Melancholic Incorporations in Aztlán
• Conclusion. The Afterlives of the Indio Bárbaro
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index