Carlos Rivera Santana is assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg. He was previously a research associate at CENTRO Hunter College, CUNY.

This book offers an innovative and exciting extension of postcolonial analysis, ranging from aesthetics to biopolitics and demonstrating the continued applicability and range of postcolonial theory. In particular, the use of biopolitics to examine colonialism’s continued legacy of racial inequality is illuminating.

• 1. Introduction: Archaeology of ColonisationPart 1: Origins: Colonial Aesthetics (The Caribbean) 2. Aesthetics of Ugliness3. Monstrous Anthropology4. BlacknessPart 2: Command (Queensland, Australia)5. Biopolitics in Colonisation: The Inequality of Human Races 6. The Blanket Approach7. State of Exception in Australia8. Conclusion: Colonisation

Carlos Rivera Santana is assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg. He was previously a research associate at CENTRO Hunter College, CUNY.

This book offers an innovative and exciting extension of postcolonial analysis, ranging from aesthetics to biopolitics and demonstrating the continued applicability and range of postcolonial theory. In particular, the use of biopolitics to examine colonialism’s continued legacy of racial inequality is illuminating.

• 1. Introduction: Archaeology of ColonisationPart 1: Origins: Colonial Aesthetics (The Caribbean) 2. Aesthetics of Ugliness3. Monstrous Anthropology4. BlacknessPart 2: Command (Queensland, Australia)5. Biopolitics in Colonisation: The Inequality of Human Races 6. The Blanket Approach7. State of Exception in Australia8. Conclusion: Colonisation

Carlos Rivera Santana is assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg. He was previously a research associate at CENTRO Hunter College, CUNY.

This book offers an innovative and exciting extension of postcolonial analysis, ranging from aesthetics to biopolitics and demonstrating the continued applicability and range of postcolonial theory. In particular, the use of biopolitics to examine colonialism’s continued legacy of racial inequality is illuminating.

• 1. Introduction: Archaeology of ColonisationPart 1: Origins: Colonial Aesthetics (The Caribbean) 2. Aesthetics of Ugliness3. Monstrous Anthropology4. BlacknessPart 2: Command (Queensland, Australia)5. Biopolitics in Colonisation: The Inequality of Human Races 6. The Blanket Approach7. State of Exception in Australia8. Conclusion: Colonisation