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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Varner, Natasha, 1981- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2020].
Series:	Critical issues in indigenous studies.
Subjects:	Indian women > Mexico > Social conditions > 20th century. Women in popular culture > Mexico > History > 20th century. Visual metaphor. Mexico > Race relations > History > 20th century.

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