La raza cosmética : beauty, identity, and settler colonialism in postrevolutionary Mexico /
La Raza Cósmetica examines postrevolutionary identity construction as a project of settler colonialism that at once appropriated and erased indigeneity. In its critique of Indigenous representation, it also shows how Indigenous women strategically engaged with and resisted these projects as they pla...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
[2020].
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| Series: | Critical issues in indigenous studies.
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| Summary: | La Raza Cósmetica examines postrevolutionary identity construction as a project of settler colonialism that at once appropriated and erased indigeneity. In its critique of Indigenous representation, it also shows how Indigenous women strategically engaged with and resisted these projects as they played out in beauty pageants, films, tourism, art and other realms of popular culture. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816542079 0816542074 9780816537150 0816537151 |