The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés

Decolonialism, Class, Gender, Race

Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781786606167
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Social Philosophy

The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés is an interdisciplinary and intersectional study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas and the rise of oppositional consciousness with a consideration of not only race, but also colonialism. Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia examines the construction of race, gender, and class in coming to an oppositional consciousness as a Spanish colonial subject in the Americas. Spanning the early foundations of knowledge production about colonial/racial subjects and connecting to contemporary debates on Latinxs and racialization, the book takes up the terms through which first-person perceptions of precarity and class, mixed-race existence, and gendered power relations are constructed. The Existence of the Mixed
Race Damnés ends with a response to the current scepticism towards organizing as people of color through a decolonial redefinition of the damnés that centers a critique of anti-black racism and colonial relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Toward a Phenomenology of the Sub-Proletariat
• 2 Visible Race and the Legacy of the Sistema de Castas
• 3 The Semiotics of Continental Ontologies in Renaissance/Colonial Knowledge Production
• 4 Taking Action as the Damnés
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author