Indian Given – Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States Hardback

Indian GivenRacial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States\nAuthor(s): Mara Josefina Saldaa-Portillo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822359883, 978-0822359883\nSynopsis\nIn Indian Given Mara Josefina Saldaa-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaa-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 [url] 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. Dra.