Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of
Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of
colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Caribs, dark-skinned Africans
and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race - made for colonial
officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth
century. Although Brunias's paintings have often been understood as
straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned as
field guides for reading race, this book investigates how the
images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held
by eighteenth-century Britons, helping to construct racial
categories while simultaneously exposing their constructedness and
underscoring their contradictions. The book offers provocative new
insights about Brunias's work gleaned from a broad survey of his
paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time. --
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