Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Paradox of empire: Las Casas and the birth of race
  • Mixed into unity: race and republic in the thought of Simoń Boliv́ar
  • Race and nation in the democratic Caesarism of Vallenilla Lanz
  • The citizenship of beauty: Jose Vasconcelos's aesthetic synthesis of race
  • Conclusion. Making race visible to political theory.