Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

This book is an important interdisciplinary study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas. It draws inspiration from Fanon to Vest and examines widely; from the politics of low-income housing projects, to visual and narrative foundational discourses on colonial subjects, to the lived legacy of these semiotic structures. The writing is bracing, seeking continually to further the decolonial project by stressing the transnational.

• Introduction / 1. The Spatiality of the Damnés / 2. Visible Race and the Legacy of the Sistema de Castas / 3. The Semiotics of Gender in Colonial/Renaissance Knowledge Production / 4. Taking Action as the Damnés / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index

Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

This book is an important interdisciplinary study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas. It draws inspiration from Fanon to Vest and examines widely; from the politics of low-income housing projects, to visual and narrative foundational discourses on colonial subjects, to the lived legacy of these semiotic structures. The writing is bracing, seeking continually to further the decolonial project by stressing the transnational.

• Introduction / 1. The Spatiality of the Damnés / 2. Visible Race and the Legacy of the Sistema de Castas / 3. The Semiotics of Gender in Colonial/Renaissance Knowledge Production / 4. Taking Action as the Damnés / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index

Daphne V. Taylor-Garcia is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

This book is an important interdisciplinary study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas. It draws inspiration from Fanon to Vest and examines widely; from the politics of low-income housing projects, to visual and narrative foundational discourses on colonial subjects, to the lived legacy of these semiotic structures. The writing is bracing, seeking continually to further the decolonial project by stressing the transnational.

• Introduction / 1. The Spatiality of the Damnés / 2. Visible Race and the Legacy of the Sistema de Castas / 3. The Semiotics of Gender in Colonial/Renaissance Knowledge Production / 4. Taking Action as the Damnés / Conclusion / Bibliography / Index