Afterlives of Discovery

“Afterlives of Discovery is a forceful and evocative historical genealogy of the current social and political order of violence in Colombia. Through the framework of the afterlife of the Age of Discovery, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes powerfully reckons with the legacies of Colombian white supremacy and its parallel false prophet of liberal progress.” - Yesenia Barragan, author of Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific

“Afterlives of Discovery offers an innovative perspective for interpreting the link between coloniality, capitalism, racism, and violence against the colonized in Colombia. In this theoretically sophisticated and beautifully written book, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes documents how Discovery invented the Americas, rendering the Western hemisphere as an aspiration for unlimited accumulation conducive to the appropriation and dispossession of land and bodies. Discovery, rhodes shows, continues to perpetuate coloniality and haunt political life in the Americas in twenty-first-century late liberalism.” - Cristina Rojas, author of Civilization and Violence: Regimes of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Colombia