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Many scholars assert that Mexico’s complex racial hierarchy, inherited from Spanish colonialism, became obsolete by the turn of the nineteenth century as class-based distinctions became more prominent and a largely mestizo population emerged. But the residues of the colonial caste system did not simply dissolve after Mexico gained independence. Rather, Ana Sabau argues, ever-present fears of racial uprising among elites and authorities led to persistent governmental techniques and ideologies designed to separate and control people based on their perceived racial status, as well as to the implementation of projects for development in fringe areas of the country. Riot and Rebellion in Mexico traces this race-based narrative through three historical flashpoints: the Bajío riots, the Haitian Revolution, and the Yucatan’s caste war. Sabau shows how rebellions were treated as racially motivated events rather than political acts and how the racialization of popular and indigenous sectors coincided with the construction of “whiteness” in Mexico. Drawing on diverse primary sources, Sabau demonstrates how the race war paradigm was mobilized in foreign and domestic affairs and reveals the foundations of a racial state and racially stratified society that persist today.

Insurgency --- Equality --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Political aspects --- History. --- Philosophy --- Attitudes --- Mexico --- Race relations --- History of Mexico, Mexican history, mestizo, mestizo studies and racism, Mestizo identity, caste system, caste system in mexico, Bajio riots, Haitian Revolution, Yucatan Politics.

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In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, Cul de Sac ultimately reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end.

Sugar plantations --- Capitalism --- Plantation owners --- Plantation overseers --- Overseers, Plantation --- Plantation managers --- Supervisors --- Owners of plantations --- Planters (Persons) --- Landowners --- Slaveholders --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Sugar beet plantations --- Sugarcane plantations --- Plantations --- History --- Haiti --- Ayiti --- Bohio --- Haichi --- Hayti --- Haytian Republic --- Quisqueya --- Repiblik Ayiti --- Repiblik d Ayiti --- Republic of Haiti --- République d'Haïti --- ハイチ --- هايتي --- Гаити --- Gaiti --- Saint-Domingue --- Economic conditions --- Plantations de canne à sucre --- Baie --- Condition économique --- XVIIIe s. -- 1701-1800 --- Haïti --- Guadeloupe --- Ferron de la Ferronnays. --- France. --- Haitian Revolution. --- Saint-Domingue. --- early modern capitalism. --- plantation complex. --- slavery. --- sugar.

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Haitian literature --- Nationalism --- Latin America --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- French literature --- Haitian literature (French) --- History and criticism --- Haitian authors --- History of Latin America --- revolutions --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Haiti --- Toussaint Louverture, --- History --- Influence. --- Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Haitian revolution --- Cultural aftershocks --- Toussaint-Bréda, Pierre Dominique, --- Bréda, Pierre Dominique Toussaint-, --- Toussaint, François Dominique, --- Toussaint, Pierre Dominique, --- Louverture, Toussaint, --- Ouverture, Toussaint L', --- Ṭusain Luverṭir, --- Toussaint Louverture, Pierre Dominique, --- Toussaint L'Ouverture, François-Dominique, --- L'Overture, Toussaint, --- טוסיין לוברטיר, --- Tousen Breda, Franswa Dominik, --- Breda, Franswa Dominik Tousen, --- Lauverture, --- Louverture, --- Ayiti --- Bohio --- Haichi --- Hayti --- Haytian Republic --- Quisqueya --- Repiblik Ayiti --- Repiblik d Ayiti --- Republic of Haiti --- République d'Haïti --- ハイチ --- هايتي --- Гаити --- Gaiti --- Saint-Domingue

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Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which he calls "border thinking." Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. His concept of "border gnosis," or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding. In a new preface that discusses Local Histories/Global Designs as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History, Mignolo connects his argument with the unfolding of history in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Postcolonialism. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Hermeneutics. --- Culture. --- Colonies. --- Interpretation, Methodology of --- Criticism --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects --- Caribbean. --- Central America. --- Crolization. --- Eurocentrism. --- Florencia Mallon. --- Haitian Revolution. --- Latin America. --- Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. --- Maghreb. --- Occidentalism. --- Orientalism. --- South America. --- South Asian subaltern studies. --- anthropologians. --- anthropologists. --- area studies. --- border thinking. --- civilization borders. --- civilizing process. --- coevalness. --- colonial India. --- colonial borderland. --- colonial difference. --- colonial epistemic difference. --- colonial histories. --- community formation. --- cultural production. --- cultural revolutions. --- culture. --- deconstruction. --- disarticulations. --- epistemic colonial difference. --- geohistorical locations. --- geopolitical configurations. --- geopolitical values. --- geopolitics. --- global designs. --- hegemonic knowledges. --- hierarchical structures. --- identification. --- imperial borderland. --- imperial conflicts. --- knowledge production. --- language. --- languages. --- literature. --- literatures. --- migrations. --- modern colonial world. --- modern world system. --- modernity. --- nation borders. --- national ideologies. --- national languages. --- new world order. --- other thinking. --- other tongue. --- planetary civilization. --- post-Occidentalism. --- postcolonial Africa. --- postcolonial Asia. --- postcoloniality. --- postmodernism. --- postpartition India. --- power. --- racial configurations. --- social sciences. --- subaltern knowledges. --- technoglobalism. --- transmodernity. --- world system analysis.