"La Raza C�osmetica 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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0816537151
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9780816537150
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B08GC7PT14
La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico (Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies)
"La Raza C�osmetica 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"--