Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Contributors xxi
6. Introduction: the alchemy of race in Mexican America 1
7. 1. The language, genealogy, and classification of “race” in colonial Mexico 25
8. 2. “Dishonor in the hands of Indians, Spaniards, and blacks”: the (racial) politics of painting in early modern Mexico 43
9. 3. “That this should be published and again in the age of the enlightenment?” eighteenth-century debates about the Indian body in colonial Mexico 73
10. 4. Moctezuma through the centuries 119
11. 5. Eugenics and racial classification in modern Mexican America 151
12. 6. Hispanic identities in the southwestern united states 174
13. 7. Race and erasure: the Hernandez v. Texas case 194
14. 8. Reconfiguring race, gender, and Chicano/a identity in film 207
15. 9. Pose and poseur: the racial politics of Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s photo-performances 236
16. Notes 267
17. Index 341