María Josefina Saldaña‐portillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Josefina Saldaña‐portillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Josefina |
| FAMILY NAME | Saldaña‐portillo |
| SIGNATURE | PORTILLO M J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Empire
The story of American literature and empire goes beyond the broad historical periodization of empire to reimagine that history. The central terms American and literature have always been tied up in US empire as well as other empires in the Americas. The word 'America,' itself the product of inter-imperial intellectual rivalry, claims the name of an entire hemisphere for one country therein. To understand the full history of American literature an…
Three Moments of Speculative Freedom in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions
In 1808, Spain’s King Ferdinand abdicated the throne during the Napoleonic invasion. The sovereignty of the “nation” was then invested in a democratically elected parliament, the Cortes de Cádiz, composed of representatives from Spain, the American viceroyalties, and the Philippines. TheCortes de Cádiz and its 1812 Constitution, for the first and only time in history, fashioned an inclusive, representative democracy spanning twocontinents and the…
Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos/as in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous …
Monica Muñoz Martinez. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
How might a historian recuperate the history of violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas when its perpetrators prohibited the documentation of their crimes? Or when Texas Rangers and law enforcement officials prohibited the issuance of death certificates or—like Creon in Antigone—the burial and commemoration of the dead? Monica Muñoz Martinez provides us with an innovative methodology for recuperating history in the aftermath of s…
Indians Have Always Been Modern
Research Article| September 01 2020 Indians Have Always Been Modern: Roma, the Settler Colonial Paradigm, and Latinx Temporality María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Her Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (2016) re…
The Violence of Citizenship in the Making of Refugees
The Central American refugee crisis has been aggravated by the Trump administration’s policies, but this administration certainly did not precipitate it. The first half of this article examines the determinant role US policy played—and continues to play—in the violence that has sent tens of thousands of refugees to the US-Mexico border, showing how Carl Schmitt’s friend-enemy distinction has repeatedly been used to represent Central Americans as …
Hacia otra historia de América: Nuevas miradas sobre el cambio cultural y las relaciones interétnicas
Federico Navarrete Linares's book offers the reader a comparative evaluation of knowledge/power systems as well as biopolitical strategies put in place by colonial regimes and utilized by state actors (from the sixteenth century to the present) initially to incorporate indigenous and Afro-mestizo peoples into European empires and subsequently to construct racial difference as the basis for discrimination, exclusion, or integration in American nat…
Critical Latinx Indigeneities: A paradigm drift
‘No Country for Old Mexicans’: The Collision of Empires on the Texas Frontier
This essay pairs documents dating from 1758 on the settlement of central Texas with the 2007 film No Country for Old Men to offer a comparative analysis of the competing racial geographies that emerged from Spanish and Anglo-American colonialism in the Southwest. These modes of European empire each produced distinctive racial geographies with lasting consequences for contemporary indigenous peoples. Settlers under the Spanish Crown represented th…
Revolution
This essay reflects on the Social Text articles on revolution. Many first-world contributors to Social Text, on the one hand, reassessed Marxist theories of political consciousness and political economy in light of the praxis of third-world revolutionary experiences, especially those in Latin America. The reality of these processess permanently debunked the developmentalism of Euro-American Marxist theory that privileged a model of revolutionary …
"How many Mexicans [is] a horse worth?" The League of United Latin American Citizens, Desegregation Cases, and Chicano Historiography
Why is Spain's role as a colonizing power in the Americas overlooked by scholars of white settler colonialism? If European ventures in such disparate places as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, the United States, Angola, and Algeria can all be viewed through the scholarly lens of white settler colonialism, why not Latin America? In this essay, I attempt to answer these questions through an analysis of the confrontation of racial ideol…
In the Shadow of Nafta: Y tu mama tambien Revisits the National Allegory of Mexican Sovereignty
The film Y tu mam tambien, directed by Alfonso Cuar n, provides an occasion to analyze how gendered and sexual subject formation inevitably unfolds within a context of global economic relations, on the one hand, and racialized colonial legacy, on the other. This seemingly innocent story of two boys discovering their sexuality while accompanying a dying Spanish woman on a cross-country jaunt is often dismissed by cultural critiques as Mexican cine…
Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Racial Character in Ámerico Paredes's George Washington Gómez
Research Article| May 01 2004 “Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being”: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Racial Character in Ámerico Paredes's George Washington Gómez María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 135–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-89-135 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Per…
The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development
Who Can Speak? Authority and Critical Identity . Judith Roof , Robyn Wiegman Women Writing Culture . Ruth Behar , Deborah A. Gordon
Critical Latinx Indigeneities: A paradigm drift
In the Shadow of Nafta: Y tu mama tambien Revisits the National Allegory of Mexican Sovereignty
The film Y tu mam tambien, directed by Alfonso Cuar n, provides an occasion to analyze how gendered and sexual subject formation inevitably unfolds within a context of global economic relations, on the one hand, and racialized colonial legacy, on the other. This seemingly innocent story of two boys discovering their sexuality while accompanying a dying Spanish woman on a cross-country jaunt is often dismissed by cultural critiques as Mexican cine…
"How many Mexicans [is] a horse worth?" The League of United Latin American Citizens, Desegregation Cases, and Chicano Historiography
Why is Spain's role as a colonizing power in the Americas overlooked by scholars of white settler colonialism? If European ventures in such disparate places as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, the United States, Angola, and Algeria can all be viewed through the scholarly lens of white settler colonialism, why not Latin America? In this essay, I attempt to answer these questions through an analysis of the confrontation of racial ideol…
Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Racial Character in Ámerico Paredes's George Washington Gómez
Research Article| May 01 2004 “Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being”: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Racial Character in Ámerico Paredes's George Washington Gómez María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 135–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-89-135 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Per…
Who Can Speak? Authority and Critical Identity . Judith Roof , Robyn Wiegman Women Writing Culture . Ruth Behar , Deborah A. Gordon
The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development
Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Racial Character in Ámerico Paredes's George Washington Gómez
Research Article| May 01 2004 “Wavering on the Horizon of Social Being”: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the Legacy of Its Racial Character in Ámerico Paredes's George Washington Gómez María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 135–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2004-89-135 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Per…
In the Shadow of Nafta: Y tu mama tambien Revisits the National Allegory of Mexican Sovereignty
The film Y tu mam tambien, directed by Alfonso Cuar n, provides an occasion to analyze how gendered and sexual subject formation inevitably unfolds within a context of global economic relations, on the one hand, and racialized colonial legacy, on the other. This seemingly innocent story of two boys discovering their sexuality while accompanying a dying Spanish woman on a cross-country jaunt is often dismissed by cultural critiques as Mexican cine…
"How many Mexicans [is] a horse worth?" The League of United Latin American Citizens, Desegregation Cases, and Chicano Historiography
Why is Spain's role as a colonizing power in the Americas overlooked by scholars of white settler colonialism? If European ventures in such disparate places as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, the United States, Angola, and Algeria can all be viewed through the scholarly lens of white settler colonialism, why not Latin America? In this essay, I attempt to answer these questions through an analysis of the confrontation of racial ideol…
Revolution
This essay reflects on the Social Text articles on revolution. Many first-world contributors to Social Text, on the one hand, reassessed Marxist theories of political consciousness and political economy in light of the praxis of third-world revolutionary experiences, especially those in Latin America. The reality of these processess permanently debunked the developmentalism of Euro-American Marxist theory that privileged a model of revolutionary …
‘No Country for Old Mexicans’: The Collision of Empires on the Texas Frontier
This essay pairs documents dating from 1758 on the settlement of central Texas with the 2007 film No Country for Old Men to offer a comparative analysis of the competing racial geographies that emerged from Spanish and Anglo-American colonialism in the Southwest. These modes of European empire each produced distinctive racial geographies with lasting consequences for contemporary indigenous peoples. Settlers under the Spanish Crown represented th…
Critical Latinx Indigeneities: A paradigm drift
Hacia otra historia de América: Nuevas miradas sobre el cambio cultural y las relaciones interétnicas
Federico Navarrete Linares's book offers the reader a comparative evaluation of knowledge/power systems as well as biopolitical strategies put in place by colonial regimes and utilized by state actors (from the sixteenth century to the present) initially to incorporate indigenous and Afro-mestizo peoples into European empires and subsequently to construct racial difference as the basis for discrimination, exclusion, or integration in American nat…
The Violence of Citizenship in the Making of Refugees
The Central American refugee crisis has been aggravated by the Trump administration’s policies, but this administration certainly did not precipitate it. The first half of this article examines the determinant role US policy played—and continues to play—in the violence that has sent tens of thousands of refugees to the US-Mexico border, showing how Carl Schmitt’s friend-enemy distinction has repeatedly been used to represent Central Americans as …
Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos/as in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous …
Monica Muñoz Martinez. The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
How might a historian recuperate the history of violence against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas when its perpetrators prohibited the documentation of their crimes? Or when Texas Rangers and law enforcement officials prohibited the issuance of death certificates or—like Creon in Antigone—the burial and commemoration of the dead? Monica Muñoz Martinez provides us with an innovative methodology for recuperating history in the aftermath of s…
Indians Have Always Been Modern
Research Article| September 01 2020 Indians Have Always Been Modern: Roma, the Settler Colonial Paradigm, and Latinx Temporality María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Her Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (2016) re…
Three Moments of Speculative Freedom in the Age of the Atlantic Revolutions
In 1808, Spain’s King Ferdinand abdicated the throne during the Napoleonic invasion. The sovereignty of the “nation” was then invested in a democratically elected parliament, the Cortes de Cádiz, composed of representatives from Spain, the American viceroyalties, and the Philippines. TheCortes de Cádiz and its 1812 Constitution, for the first and only time in history, fashioned an inclusive, representative democracy spanning twocontinents and the…
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Empire
The story of American literature and empire goes beyond the broad historical periodization of empire to reimagine that history. The central terms American and literature have always been tied up in US empire as well as other empires in the Americas. The word 'America,' itself the product of inter-imperial intellectual rivalry, claims the name of an entire hemisphere for one country therein. To understand the full history of American literature an…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (8 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works)