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Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race - made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century. Although Brunias's paintings have often been understood as straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned as field guides for reading race, this book investigates how the images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by eighteenth-century Britons, helping to construct racial categories while simultaneously exposing their constructedness and underscoring their contradictions. The book offers provocative new insights about Brunias's work gleaned from a broad survey of his paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time.

Race relations. --- Race in art. --- Imperialism in art. --- Race dans l'art. --- Livres numériques. --- Impérialisme dans l'art. --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Brunias, Agostino --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Caribbean Area. --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Race relations --- History. --- "idian trade scenes. --- Afro-Creoles. --- Agostino Brunias. --- Black Caribs. --- British colonial Caribbean. --- British colonial art. --- Carib Wars. --- Caribbean life. --- colonial West Indians. --- dark-skinned Africans. --- late-eighteenth century Britain. --- mixed-race people. --- paintings. --- plantocratic elites. --- visual ethnography.