Abstract
Review of: Daniel Nemser. Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.
Highlights
Nemser intends Infrastructures of Race to correct the field’s penchant for analyses of “how contemporaries perceived identity, how bodies were marked, how otherness was represented” (4)
Nemser wants scholars to center our accounts of racialization on the material realities of domination and primitive accumulation and how the racial caste system was constituted as a social reality
Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies and spatial imaginations elaborate how the built environment reflected the caste system, Infrastructures of Race insists on a dialectical development of both race and the physical structures of empire
Summary
Nemser intends Infrastructures of Race to correct the field’s penchant for analyses of “how contemporaries perceived identity, how bodies were marked, how otherness was represented” (4). Nemser has a point, and it is a valuable contribution to the field: to wit, race is not an idea, but a structure. Nemser wants scholars to center our accounts of racialization on the material realities of domination and primitive accumulation and how the racial caste system was constituted as a social reality.
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