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Book SynopsisIn
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.
Trade Review"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.
Indian Given 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 *
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Indian Given 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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
