The author’s strategy is to read a series of texts for what they might reveal about mulatez in the Caribbean. The texts include canonical writings such as Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Historia de las Indias, C. L. R. James’s Black Jacobins, Washington Irving’s A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada and A History of the Life and Travels of Christopher Columbus, as well as a number of paintings, sculptures, and buildings. By mulatez he does not mean to refer to “marked bodies or racial categories, but rather to a history of subversion of those categories through the metaphorical movement,” which he investigates and describes “in a per-formative way” in the present book (pp. xvii – xviii). That is, he intends to use narratives of what he calls mulatez to challenge boundaries between coloniality and modernity, and between non-European objects of exploitation and European “rational subjects.” Even as...

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