Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: The Alchemy of Race in Mexican America; 1. The Language, Genealogy, and Classification of "Race" in Colonial Mexico; 2. "Dishonor in the Hands of Indians, Spaniards, and Blacks": The (Racial) Politics of Painting in Early Modern Mexico; 3. "That This Should Be Published and Again in the Age of the Enlightenment?" Eighteenth-Century Debates About the Indian Body in Colonial Mexico; 4. Moctezuma Through the Centuries; 5. Eugenics and Racial Classification in Modern Mexican America
6. Hispanic Identities in the Southwestern United States7. Race and Erasure: The Hernandez v. Texas Case; 8. Reconfiguring Race, Gender, and Chicano/a Identity in Film; 9. Pose and Poseur: The Racial Politics of Guillermo Gmez-Pea's Photo-Performances; Notes; Index
Summary
This innovative and provocative volume focuses on the historical development of racial thinking and imagining in Mexico and the southwestern United States over a period of almost five centuries, from the earliest decades of Spanish colonial rule and the birth of a multiracial colonial population, to the present
