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Title:

Race and classification : the case of Mexican America / edited by Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith ; with a preface by William B. Taylor.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxiii, 356 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Racism--Mexico--History--Congresses.
Racism--Southwestern States--History--Congresses.
Ethnicity--Mexico--History--Congresses.
Ethnicity--Southwestern States--History--Congresses.
Mexico--Race relations--Congresses.
Southwestern States--Race relations--Congresses.
Race in art--Congresses.
Race in literature--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Katzew, Ilona
Deans-Smith, Susan, 1953-

Notes:

"This book originated with a conference organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth-Century Mexico, on May 1, 2004"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the alchemy of race in Mexican America / Susan Deans-Smith and Ilona Katzew -- The language, genealogy, and classification of "race" in colonial Mexico / Mar©Ưa Elena Mart©Ưnez -- "Dishonor in the hands of Indians, Spaniards, and Blacks" : the (racial) politics of painting in early modern Mexico / Susan Deans-Smith -- "That this should be published and again in the age of the Enlightenment?" : eighteenth-century debates about the Indian body in colonial Mexico / Ilona Katzew -- Moctezuma through the centuries / Jaime Cuadriello -- Eugenics and racial classification in modern Mexican America / Alexandra Minna Stern -- Hispanic identities in the southwestern United States / Ram©đn A. Guti©♭rrez -- Race and erasure : the Hernandez v. Texas case / Ian Haney L©đpez -- Reconfiguring race, gender and Chicano/a identity in film / Adriana Katzew -- Pose and poseur : the racial politics of Guillermo Gomez-Pe©ła's photo-performances / Jennifer Gonz©Łlez and Guillermo G©đmez-Pe©ła.

ISBN:

0804761418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804761413 (pbk. : alk. paper)
080476140X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804761406 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)258331235

LCCN:

2008041876

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)