{"id":63268,"date":"2022-04-21T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63268"},"modified":"2022-04-21T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:02:13","slug":"the-white-indians-of-mexican-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63268","title":{"rendered":"The White Indians of Mexican Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunypress.edu\/Books\/T\/The-White-Indians-of-Mexican-Cinema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunypress.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State University of New York Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2022<br \/>\n326 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9781438488035<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spanport.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/garciablizzard_monica.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>M\u00f3nica Garc\u00eda Blizzard<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese<br \/>\n<em>Emory University, Atlantic, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunypress.edu\/Books\/T\/The-White-Indians-of-Mexican-Cinema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunypress.edu\/var\/site\/storage\/images\/books\/t\/the-white-indians-of-mexican-cinema\/9781438488035_cover\/5314502-1-eng-CA\/9781438488035_cover1_rb_modalcover.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The White Indians of Mexican Cinema<\/em> theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade\u2014the representation of Whiteness as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_peoples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigeneity<\/a>\u2014during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Age_of_Mexican_cinema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Age of Mexican cinema<\/a>, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective while remaining grounded in the history of local racial categories, M\u00f3nica Garc\u00eda Blizzard argues that this trope works to reconcile two divergent discourses about race in postrevolutionary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexico<\/a>: the government-sponsored celebration of Indigeneity and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>mestizaje<\/em><\/a> (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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The White Indians of Mexican Cinema&#8221; theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade\u2014the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity\u2014during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,8413,8,103,17],"tags":[33161,1527,243],"class_list":["post-63268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-monographs","tag-monica-garcia-blizzard","tag-state-university-of-new-york-press","tag-suny-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63270,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63268\/revisions\/63270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}