The third title in the SUNY series in Latin American Cinema (edited by Ignacio Sanchez Prado and Leslie L. Marsh) to be indexed at Southwest Humanities, Mónica García Blizzard’s monograph The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade Throughout the Golden Age analyzes a form of racial masquerade particular to mid-twentieth-century Mexican film, which the author terms “whiteness-as-indigeneity.” With a broad basis in decolonial thought and a focus on the specificities of Mexican Golden Age cinema, García Blizzard (assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University) explores the Mexican state and film industry’s dual emphasis on celebrating Indigeneity and mestizaje while idealizing Whiteness in the construction of postrevolutionary Mexican identity. This welcome addition to the field of Latin American film studies will be published in April 2022. More information about this title is available at the SUNY Press website here.
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