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978-1-78660-615-0 • Hardback • June 2018 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-1-78661-456-8 • Paperback • November 2019 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
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Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
Introduction / 1. The Spatiality of the Damnés / 2. Visible Race and the Legacy of the Sistema de Castas / 3. The Semiotics of Gender in Colonial/Renaissance Knowledge Production / 4. Taking Action as the Damnés / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index
This book is an important interdisciplinary study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas. It draws inspiration from Fanon to Vest and examines widely; from the politics of low-income housing projects, to visual and narrative foundational discourses on colonial subjects, to the lived legacy of these semiotic structures. The writing is bracing, seeking continually to further the decolonial project by stressing the transnational.
— Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela, Senior Lecturer, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, King's College London
This is a major contribution to the development of decolonial thought. Taylor-Garcia shows that mixing is not a triumph of moral anti-racism, as it is sometimes portrayed, but the result of forced collisions and migrations. Given this, decolonial projects must begin to operate more fully as relational projects that connect multiple domains. Brilliant.
— Linda Martín Alcoff, professor of philosophy, City University of New York