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Nuevas perspectivas sobre etnicidad, género, subjetividad europea, y construcción de geografías coloniales. El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos se apoya en trabajos recientes sobre el análisis del discurso y la crítica de la representación que se están desarrollando en áreas como antropología, historia, y geografía cultural. Al analizar una gran variedad de textos, tales como el Diario de Colón, la Lettera de Vespucio, el Alboroto y motín de Sigüenza y Góngora, el México en 1554 de Cervantes de Salazar, la Grandeza mexicana de Balbuena, y la Historia antigua de México de Clavijero, traza los orígenes y usos del saber geopolítico desde la época clásica hasta el siglo XVIII novohispano, para aportar nuevas perspectivas sobre etnicidad, género, subjetividad europea, y construcción de geografías coloniales. Este libro mira los movimientos de ideas más allá de las fronteras espaciales y temporales, e identifica la percepción europea del cuerpo americano como un cuerpo abyecto, que desestabiliza el sistema, la identidad y el orden, y explora la relación del cuerpo y del espacio como una continuidad de las prácticas y las representaciones estratégicas del discurso colonial, enfocándose en la construcción de la identidad, y en las definiciones de las fronteras físicas y culturales. Este estudio va más allá de las lecturas previas, y sugiere nuevas direcciones para el análisis e interpretación de la espacialidad, corporalidad y agencia en la America española colonial. SERGIO RIVERA-AYALA es profesor en la Universidad de California, Riverside.

Eurocentrism --- Colonists --- Ethnocentrism --- Human geography --- Attitudes. --- Mexico --- History --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Cultural relativism --- Ethnopsychology --- Nationalism --- Prejudices --- Race --- Settlers (Colonists) --- Persons --- Eurocentricity --- Agency. --- Colonial America. --- Colonial discourse. --- Colonial geography. --- Colonial identity. --- Corporeality. --- Cultural boundaries. --- Discurso colonial. --- Ethnicity. --- European perception. --- Gender. --- Geopolitics. --- Novohispanos. --- Spanish America. --- Spatiality. --- Subjectivity.

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Honorable Mention for the 2018 American Ethnological Society Senior Book PrizeHonorable Mention for the 2017 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing presented by the American Anthropological Association In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past decade, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding them that their belonging is tenuous. In this book, Janet McIntosh looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya. From clinging to a lost colonial identity to pronouncing a new Kenyan nationality, the public face of white Kenyans has undergone changes fraught with ambiguity. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, McIntosh focuses on their discourse and narratives to ask: What stories do settler descendants tell about their claim to belong in Kenya? How do they situate themselves vis-a-vis the colonial past and anti-colonial sentiment, phrasing and re-phrasing their memories and judgments as they seek a position they feel is ethically acceptable? McIntosh explores contradictory and diverse responses: moral double consciousness, aspirations to uplift the nation, ideological blind-spots, denials, and self-doubt as her respondents strain to defend their entitlements in the face of mounting Kenyan rhetorics of ancestry.

White people --- History. --- Kenya --- Kenya --- Social conditions --- History --- 1960s. --- 1963. --- activism. --- africa. --- african. --- ancestry. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- britain. --- classism. --- code switching. --- collective past. --- colonial identity. --- colonial. --- colonization. --- diversity. --- ethics. --- ethnographic. --- ethnography. --- fieldwork. --- identity. --- ideology. --- independence. --- international. --- kenya. --- language. --- memory. --- morality. --- national identity. --- nationality. --- protest. --- race. --- racism. --- rhetoric. --- scandal. --- settler. --- white kenyans.