![]() It offers a fruitful and exceptional interdisciplinary engagement between political philosophy and the history of ideas, which is also an invitation to take more seriously Latin American political thinkers. Sawyer, Professor of Political Science & African American Studies, UCLA "By examining what a selected number of Spanish American thinkers had to say about race, regardless of their politics, Diego von Vacano's book is a most valuable contribution on various fronts. Scholars of philosophy, political theory, and race will better understand the complicated and 'synthetic' nature of racial discourse in the Americas from reading this book." -Mark Q. With The Color of Citizenship, the important contributions of Latin Americans to thinking about race can no longer be ignored." -Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University "The Color of Citizenship is an excellent genealogy of racial thinking and post-colonial states in the Americas. Through the writings of four major Spanish American intellectuals, spanning fully 400 years, The Color of Citizenship explores the evolution of racial ideas based on mixture and fluidity rather than purity and stability. As a central factor of the lived experience of individuals in the modern world, race as a synthetic concept illuminates the workings of politics, power, and citizenship and challenges the ways in which race has traditionally been elided in Western political thought." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University "Diego von Vacano's important new book forces us to rethink central assumptions about modernity and race that have long been part of European and North American intellectual traditions. "Diego von Vacano puts Latin American and Hispanic political thought in the forefront as he examines, with originality and precision, the role that race has played and can play in both political thought and theory. 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. Von Vacano compares the way that race is conceived across the writings of four thinkers, and across four different eras: the Spanish friar Bartolomé de Las Casas writing in the context of empire Simón Bolivar writing during the early republican period Venezuelan sociologist Laureano Vallenilla Lanz on the role of race in nationalism and Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos writing on the aesthetic approach to racial identity during the cosmopolitan, post-national period. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most perplexing puzzles of modernity. ![]()
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