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The Color of Citizenship - Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought (Hardcover)
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The Color of Citizenship - Race, Modernity and Latin American / Hispanic Political Thought (Hardcover)
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The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of
the most perplexing puzzles of modernity. While political thought
has been slow to take up this puzzle, Diego von Vacano suggests
that the tradition of Latin American and Hispanic political
thought, which has long considered the place of mixed-race peoples
throughout the Americas, is uniquely well-positioned to provide
useful ways of thinking about the connections between race and
citizenship. As he argues, debates in the United States about
multiracial identity, the possibility of a post-racial world in the
aftermath of Barack Obama, and demographic changes owed to the age
of mass migration will inevitably have to confront the intellectual
tradition related to racial admixture that comes to us from Latin
America.
Von Vacano compares the way that race is conceived across the
writings of four thinkers, and across four different eras: the
Spanish friar Bartolome de Las Casas writing in the context of
empire; Simon Bolivar writing during the early republican period;
Venezuelan sociologist Laureano Vallenilla Lanz on the role of race
in nationalism; and Mexican philosopher Jose Vasconcelos writing on
the aesthetic approach to racial identity during the cosmopolitan,
post-national period. From this comparative and historical survey,
von Vacano develops a concept of race as synthetic, fluid and
dynamic -- a concept that will have methodological, historical, and
normative value for understanding race in other diverse societies."
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