Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Nemser, Daniel
Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Nemser, Daniel

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico

Winner, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018Many scholars believe that the...
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Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Nemser, Daniel

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico

$570.61
Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico by Nemser, Daniel

Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico

$570.61
Author: Daniel Nemser
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Winner, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018

Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city with a garrison of Spanish troops. But the practice of spatial concentration--gathering people and things in specific ways, at specific places, and for specific purposes--has a history in Latin America that reaches back to the conquest. In this paradigm-setting book, Daniel Nemser argues that concentration projects, often tied to urbanization, laid an enduring, material groundwork, or infrastructure, for the emergence and consolidation of new forms of racial identity and theories of race.

Infrastructures of Race traces the use of concentration as a technique for colonial governance by examining four case studies from Mexico under Spanish rule: centralized towns, disciplinary institutions, segregated neighborhoods, and general collections. Nemser shows how the colonial state used concentration in its attempts to build a new spatial and social order, and he explains why the technique flourished in the colonies. Although the designs for concentration were sometimes contested and short-lived, Nemser demonstrates that they provided a material foundation for ongoing processes of racialization. This finding, which challenges conventional histories of race and mestizaje (racial mixing), promises to deepen our understanding of the way race emerges from spatial politics and techniques of population management.



Author: Daniel Nemser
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 05/23/2017
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781477312605

About the Author
DANIEL NEMSERAnn Arbor, MichiganNemser is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan.
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