Reviews for The limits of racial domination

The average rating for The limits of racial domination based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-23 00:00:00 Carolyn Gleason This book was really illuminating to show the myriad ways that racial beliefs manifest themselves in many ways in different societies. Even as a teen, I wondered why many Hispanics I knew seemed to be of mixed blood between white and indigenous whereas Americans (until recently with the rapid growth of interracial marriage) seem to often be more "purely" white, black, or indigenous. This book explains why this is by showing the differences between Spanish racial ideology and English racial ideology (the latter the book doesn't talk about explicitly--I just compared the two in my head).

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-13 00:00:00 Linda Miller This is the second time I've read this book, my first encounter was as a first-year undergrad in my first history class (Atlantic World) and I was completely fascinated by the idea of racial fluidity as well as the give and take of the process of conquest. 14 years later, while most of the information is no longer new, I still appreciate Cope's straightforward overview that calls into question Spanish dominance in colonial Latin America and highlighting the way that power, race, and class are all negotiated concepts.