Description: Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.
Brief description: Mónica García Blizzard is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University.
Review Quotes:
"The White Indians of Mexican Cinema offers a compelling, original intervention that rightly foregrounds the visual construction of race as a key lens through which to understand Mexican cinema. García Blizzard's clear, crisp prose makes this text accessible to a range of readers, from students to seasoned experts. This book will be of broad interest to scholars of race, cinema and Mexican studies." -- Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
"Mónica García Blizzard's first book is a rich and revelatory project ... This text is useful for Latin American and Anglophone scholars who work at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and film studies, as the book offers a significant sociohistorical contextualization of the racialized and gendered patterns of colonial power in Mexican cinema." -- Film Quarterly
"Well written, tightly argued, and thoroughly researched, The White Indians of Mexican Cinema promises to make a lively and important contribution to studies of Indigenous representation in Mexican cinema." -- Dolores Tierney, author of New Transnationalisms in Contemporary Latin American Cinemas