Review: The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age, by Mónica García Blizzard

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Book Review| September 01 2022 Review: The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age, by Mónica García Blizzard The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age by Mónica García Blizzard Ana Almeyda-Cohen Ana Almeyda-Cohen ANA ALMEYDA-COHEN is an assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Colby College, where her research focuses on gender, visual studies, and popular culture in Mexican cinema and culture. She is currently at work on a book about the mediation of sex, drugs, magic, and the border in Mexican cinema. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Mónica García Blizzard, The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2022. $95.00 cloth. 326 pages. Film Quarterly (2022) 76 (1): 106–107. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.106 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ana Almeyda-Cohen; Review: The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age, by Mónica García Blizzard. Film Quarterly 1 September 2022; 76 (1): 106–107. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.1.106 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Mónica García Blizzard, The White Indians of Mexican Cinema: Racial Masquerade throughout the Golden Age. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2022. $95.00 cloth. 326 pages. Mónica García Blizzard’s first book is a rich and revelatory project that contends with a question that US and European spectators often ask when first encountering mainstream Mexican films and telenovelas: “Why is everyone so White?” (1). Offering an in-depth analysis that examines a “pervasive racialized visual logic in Mexico” (38) that privileges whiteness, The White Indians of Mexican Cinema answers this spectatorial question by unraveling how Mexico’s audiovisual landscape operates under the legacy of colonialism. García Blizzard postulates that the coloniality of power, as suggested by Aníbal Quijano, pervades the films of the early, mid, and late periods of Mexico’s golden age of cinema, which glorify whiteness by casting white Mexicans as Indigenous leads, thus valorizing “whiteness-as-indigeneity” (5). With a decolonial perspective... You do not currently have access to this content.