{"product_id":"the-white-indians-of-mexican-cinema-racial-masquerade-throughout-the-golden-age-paperback","title":"The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMónica García Blizzard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2024 International Latino Book Award in the Best Academic Themed Book, College Level - English category \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe White Indians of Mexican Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade-the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity-during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective while remaining grounded in the history of local racial categories, Mónica García Blizzard argues that this trope works to reconcile two divergent discourses about race in postrevolutionary Mexico: the government-sponsored celebration of Indigeneity and \u003ci\u003emestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e (or the process of interracial and intercultural mixing), on the one hand, and the idealization of Whiteness, on the other. Close readings of twenty films and primary source material illustrate how Mexican cinema has mediated race, especially in relation to gender, in ways that project national specificity, but also reproduce racist tendencies with respect to beauty, desire, and protagonism that survive to this day. This sweeping survey illuminates how Golden Age films produced diverse, even contradictory messages about the place of Indigeneity in the national culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)-a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries-and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: https: \/\/www.openmonographs.org\/. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at http: \/\/hdl.handle.net\/20.500.12648\/7153\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMónica García Blizzard \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 326\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783111246112,"sku":"9781438488042","price":63.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/525dbe5969c89850fee8a1d3ed66249a.webp?v=1780580475","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-white-indians-of-mexican-cinema-racial-masquerade-throughout-the-golden-age-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}