Race, Coloniality, and the Writing of Black and Indigenous Histories

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This essay reviews the following works:Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada. By Larissa Brewer-García. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvi + 304. $99.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781108493000.Arqueología del mestizaje: Colonialismo y racialización. By Laura Catelli. Temuco: Ediciones Universidad de la Frontera, CLACSO, 2020. Pp. 296. ISBN: 9789562363853.Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba. By Luis Martínez-Fernández. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2018. Pp. 220 + 236. $24.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781683401278.The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492–1898). Edited by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 460. $250.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781138092952.On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis. By Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp xii + 304. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822371090.Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico. By Daniel Nemser. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 232. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477312605.The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World. By Elena A. Schneider. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 360. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9781469645353.Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America. By Stuart B. Schwartz. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 256. $35.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781684580200.