The White Indians of Mexican Cinema : Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age (Suny series in Latin American Cinema)

García Blizzard, Mónica

State University of New York Press（2022/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 326 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438488042
• DDC分類 791.43652997072

Full Description

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.

Honorable Mention, 2024 International Latino Book Award in the Best Academic Themed Book, College Level - English category

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema 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 mestizaje (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.

This 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

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Idealized Pre-Columbian Womanhood

2. Taming the Tehuana

3. Revolutionary Politics, Colonized Aesthetics

4. Reframing Mestizaje: White Mayans, Indigenous Spirituality, and Cenote Suicides

5. María Isabel: A White Indita for Modern Mexico

6. Indios, Desire, and the White Mexican Woman

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index