Race and classification
Subtitle: the case of Mexican America
By: edited by Ilona Katzew and Susan Deans-Smith ; with a preface by William B. Taylor.
Contributors: Katzew, Ilona.; Deans-Smith, Susan, 1953-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780804761406; 9780804761413
Subjects: Racism -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses; Racism -- Southwestern States -- History -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Southwestern States -- History -- Congresses; Race in art -- Congresses; Race in literature -- Congresses; Mexico -- Race relations -- Congresses; Southwestern States -- Race relations -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "This book originated with a conference organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth-Century Mexico, on May 1, 2004"--Acknowl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the alchemy of race in Mexican America / Susan Deans-Smith and Ilona Katzew; title: The language, genealogy, and classification of "race" in colonial Mexico / María Elena Martínez-López; title: "Dishonor in the hands of Indians, Spaniards, and Blacks" : the (racial) politics of painting in early modern Mexico / Susan Deans-Smith; title: "That this should be published and again in the Age of the Enlightenment?" : eighteenth-century debates about the Indian body in colonial Mexico / Ilona Katzew; title: Moctezuma through the centuries / Jaime Cuadriello; title: Eugenics and racial classification in modern Mexican America / Alexandra Minna Stern; title: Hispanic identities in the southwestern United States / Ramón A. Gutiérrez; title: Race and erasure : the Hernandez v. Texas case / Ian Haney López; title: Reconfiguring race, gender and Chicano/a identity in film / Adriana Katzew; title: Pose and poseur : the racial politics of Guillermo Gomez-Peña's photo-performances / Jennifer González and Guillermo Gómez-Peña.