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Paul Michael Johnson is Associate Research Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University.\u00a0 To date, his scholarship has drawn primarily on the history of emotion, the senses, the body, and performance as sites of racial and gendered othering in early modern literary culture.\u00a0 He has also written on such topics as translation, film, public monuments, and popular culture, often placing pre-modern Iberia into conversation with global issues and twenty-first-century debates.<\/p>\r\n
Johnson is the author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean<\/em> (University of Toronto Press,\u00a02021) and the co-editor, with Nicholas R. Jones, of Cervantine Futures: Reading Cervantes after the Critical Turn <\/em>(Vanderbilt University Press, in press). He has also authored some fifty publications in edited volumes, collections, popular media, and peer-reviewed journals such as PMLA<\/em>, Renaissance Quarterly<\/em>, Atlantic Studies<\/em>, Bulletin of Spanish Studies<\/em>, MLN<\/em>, and Exemplaria<\/em>. \u00a0His research has been supported by the Fulbright, Harvard\u2019s Houghton Library, the RaceB4Race Second Book Institute, and the Great Lakes College Association\/Mellon Foundation. \u00a0He is a member of the international research group Cultural History of Gestures<\/em><\/a>, sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Johnson serves on the editorial board of the New Hispanisms series<\/a> at Louisiana State University Press and the advisory board of the Ibero-American Society for the History of Emotions and Experience (SIHEX)<\/a>.\u00a0 He has been elected to the MLA Delegate Assembly, the Executive Committee of the MLA\u2019s Mediterranean Forum, and the Executive Council of the Cervantes Society of America<\/a>.\u00a0 As of 2026, he will be the editor of Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\r\n At Hopkins, he serves on the advisory board of the Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance<\/a>, and as affiliated faculty for the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies<\/a>.\u00a0 Previously, Johnson was Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at DePauw University.<\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":[" Since joining Hopkins in 2024, Professor Johnson has offered the graduate seminar Staging Race in Early Modern Drama<\/em>.\u00a0 At the undergraduate level, he has taught a course on Don Quijote <\/em>and, with Mackenzie Zalin, a seminar on Ephemeral Spanish Drama<\/em>, which leveraged the JHU libraries\u2019 outstanding collection of comedias sueltas <\/em>and other seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatrical ephemera.\u00a0 In Spring 2026, he is slated to teach courses on Early Psychology in Literature, Art, and Science <\/em>and The African Diaspora in Early Modern Iberia<\/em>.<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":[" Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2020.\u00a0 (Toronto Iberic Series, 328 pp.)\u00a0 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3138\/9781487536398.<\/p>\r\n Cervantine Futures: Reading Cervantes after the Critical Turn<\/em>.\u00a0 Co-edited with Nicholas R. Jones.\u00a0 Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2026.\u00a0 (Hispanic Issues Series; nineteen chapters + introduction; in press)<\/p>\r\n \u201cCervantes\u2019s Black Castrato and the Racial Politics of Timbre.\u201d\u00a0 Sound in the Early Atlantic<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Sarah Finley and Elisabeth Le Guin.\u00a0 Spec. issue of Atlantic Studies<\/em>.\u00a0 (Forthcoming)<\/p>\r\n \u201cAt First Blush: Race, Rouge, and the Transnational Performance of Turning Red.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Renaissance Quarterly <\/em>78.1 (Spring 2025): 65\u201394.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cEarly Modern Deepfakes: Honing Critical Spectatorship through Pixelated Performances.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. David Castillo and Bradley Nelson.\u00a0 Hispanic Issues On Line<\/em> 32 (2024): 201\u201321.<\/p>\r\n \u201cErrant Translation; or, Lin Shu\u2019s Don Quixote <\/em>and the Paybacks of Back-Translating.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Translation<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. A.E.B. Coldiron.\u00a0 Spec. issue of PMLA<\/em> 138.3 (May 2023): 567\u201383.<\/p>\r\n \u201cSounds of Fury: The Aural Poetics of the Voice and Imperial Violence in Cervantes\u2019 Mediterranean.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Aural Culture and Poetics in the Early Modern Hispanic World: Sound, Rhythm, and Music<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Mary B. Quinn and Steven Hutchinson.\u00a0 Spec. issue of Bulletin of Spanish Studies<\/em> 100.2\u20133 (2023): 369\u201392.<\/p>\r\n \u201cTirso de Molina\u2019s El melanc\u00f3lico<\/em> and the Performative Authenticity of Early Modern (Pseudo-)Melancholy.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 El morbo de la melancol\u00eda en Espa\u00f1a \/ The Morbid Condition of Melancholy in Spain<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Santiago Morales-Rivera.\u00a0 Spec. issue of eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies <\/em>53 (2022): 49\u201366.<\/p>\r\n \u201cNavegar en el (a)mar: Una talasolog\u00eda de los afectos en el Persiles<\/em>.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Historias septentrionales cervantinas<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Randi Lise Davenport.\u00a0 Spec. issue of Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro<\/em> 7.1 (2019): 137\u201346.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cThe End(lessnes)s of Infamy: Agamben, Enjambment, and Embodiment in a Cervantine Stanza.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 The Last Word: The Ends of Poetry, Agamben, and Early Modern Spain<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Sonia Vel\u00e1zquez.\u00a0 Spec. issue of MLN <\/em>132.2 (March 2017): 494\u2013506.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cThe Trials of Language: Apophasis, Ineffability, and the Mystical Rhetoric of Love in the Persiles<\/em>.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 \u2018Si ya por atrevido no sale con las manos en la cabeza\u2019: El legado po\u00e9tico del \u201cPersiles\u201d cuatrocientos a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s<\/em>. \u00a0<\/em>Ed. Mercedes Alcal\u00e1 Gal\u00e1n, Antonio Cortijo Oca\u00f1a, and Francisco Layna Ranz.\u00a0 Spec. issue of eHumanista \/ Cervantes <\/em>5 (2016): 297\u2013316.<\/p>\r\n \"Of Fine Arts and Fine Feelings: Mapping Affect across Lessing\u2019s Laoco\u00f6n<\/em>, Lord Carteret\u2019s Quijote<\/em>, and Oldfield\u2019s \u2018Advertencias.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Thinking About Affect in Culture and Art<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Katarzyna Paszkiewicz.\u00a0 Spec. issue of 452\u00b0F: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature <\/em>14 (2016): 121\u201337.<\/p>\r\n \u201c\u2019Salido a la verg\u00fcenza\u2019: Inquisition, Penality, and a Cervantine View of Mediterranean \u2018Values.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Cervantes y el Mediterr\u00e1neo \/ Cervantes and the Mediterranean<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Steven Hutchinson and Antonio Cortijo Oca\u00f1a.\u00a0 Spec. issue of eHumanista \/ Cervantes <\/em>2 (2013): 340\u201361.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n *Excerpted as \u201cDon Quijote in the Oxcart: Shame and Shadows of the Inquisition.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Norton Critical Edition of \u201cDon Quijote\u201d<\/em> by Miguel de Cervantes<\/em>.\u00a0 2nd ed.\u00a0 Trans. Burton Raffel.\u00a0 Ed. and trans. Diana de Armas Wilson.\u00a0 New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2020.\u00a0 791\u201397.<\/p>\r\n *Spanish translation: \u201c\u2019<\/a>Salido a la verg\u00fcenza\u2019: Inquisici\u00f3n, penalidad y una perspectiva cervantina de los \u2018valores\u2019 mediterr\u00e1neos.\u201d\u00a0 Analecta Malacitana Electr\u00f3nica <\/em>40 (June 2016): 3\u201336.]<\/p>\r\n \u201cA Soldier\u2019s Shame: The Specter of Captivity in \u2018La historia del cautivo.\u2019\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America<\/em> 31.2 (Fall 2011): 153\u201384.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cEchoes of Lepanto: Reliving the Sounds of War in Cervantes\u2019s Literature.\u201d\u00a0 Solicited for edited volume on Cervantes and the Unsayable: New Approaches to Trauma Studies<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Stephen Hessel and Ryan Schmitz.\u00a0 Louisiana State University Press.\u00a0 (Under review)<\/p>\r\n \u201cCervantes, per Verse: Misogynist Poetics of Pastoral Incels.\u201d\u00a0 Cervantes, Women, and Perversity<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Sonia P\u00e9rez Villanueva, Leyla Rouhi, and Elizabeth Spragins.\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan.\u00a0 (Under review)<\/p>\r\n \u201cCervantine Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Age, and Ability in \u2018El celoso extreme\u00f1o.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Cervantine Futures: Reading Cervantes after the Critical Turn<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Nicholas R. Jones and Paul Michael Johnson.\u00a0 Vanderbilt University Press.\u00a0 (In press)<\/p>\r\n \u201cQuixotic Allyship? The Colonial, Transnational, and Racialized Legacies of Cervantes\u2019s Statue.\u201d\u00a0 On the Uses and Abuses of Early Modern Spanish Culture, Volume 1: Mediating and Decolonizing Spain\u2019s \u201cGolden Age<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Ed. Chad Leahy and Elizabeth Spragins.\u00a0 Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025.\u00a0 (In press)<\/p>\r\n \u201cEmotive Tapestries: Upturning Affect in Cervantes\u2019s Don Quixote<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Teaching Emotions in World Literature<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Andreea Marculescu and Charles-Louis Morand-M\u00e9tivier.\u00a0 Modern Language Association.\u00a0 (In press)<\/p>\r\n \u201cCaptive Listeners: Antonio de Sosa\u2019s Topographia <\/em>as Acoustic Ethnography of Early Modern Algiers.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. V\u00edctor Sierra Matute.\u00a0 New York: Routledge, 2024.\u00a0 256\u201367.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cLa traducci\u00f3n (re)negada.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Cervantes entre amigos: Ensayos en homenaje de Diana de Armas Wilson<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Conxita Dom\u00e8nech and Andr\u00e9s Lema-Hincapi\u00e9.\u00a0 Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2024.\u00a0 170\u201382.<\/p>\r\n \u201cThe (Mediterranean) World Is Not Enough: Locating Europe\u2019s Global South in For Your Eyes Only<\/em>.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Global James Bond: (Re)Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Lisa Funnell and Klaus Dodds.\u00a0 Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2023.\u00a0 135\u201348.<\/p>\r\n \u201c\u2019Muchas y muy verdaderas se\u00f1ales\u2019: The Theatrics of Truth and Sincerity of Fiction in La Galatea<\/em>.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Drawing the Curtain: Cervantes\u2019s Theatrical Revelations<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Esther Fern\u00e1ndez and Adrienne L. Mart\u00edn.\u00a0 Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2022.\u00a0 277\u2013305.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cFeeling Certainty, Performing Sincerity: The Emotional Hermeneutics of Truth in Inquisitorial and Theatrical Practice.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry, 1550\u20131700<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Barbara Fuchs and Mercedes Garc\u00eda-Arenal.\u00a0 Toronto and Los Angeles: University of Toronto Press \/ UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2020.\u00a0 50\u201379.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cEstudio introductorio\u201d [Critical Introduction]<\/a>.\u00a0 Celos, amor y venganza, o No hay mal que por bien no venga<\/em>.\u00a0 By Luis V\u00e9lez de Guevara.\u00a0 Ed. William R. Manson and C. George Peale.\u00a0 Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2018.\u00a0 11\u201341.<\/p>\r\n \u201cLas tecnolog\u00edas cervantinas del yo: Autoescritura y afectividad en Don Quijote<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos, Vol. 9: Cervantes y sus enemigos<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Eduardo Urbina and Jes\u00fas G. Maestro.\u00a0 Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2013.\u00a0 245\u201358.<\/p>\r\n \u201cDon Quijote avergonzado: Trayectoria de un afecto en Cervantes.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Pictavia aurea: Actas del IX Congreso de la Asociaci\u00f3n Internacional \u201cSiglo de Oro<\/em>.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Ed. Alain B\u00e8gue and Emma Herr\u00e1n Alonso.\u00a0 Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2013.\u00a0 477\u201384.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cExpulsi\u00f3n forzada e integraci\u00f3n forzosa: Reflexiones quijotescas sobre la tolerancia multicultural hist\u00f3rica y actual.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Gaceta Hisp\u00e1nica de Madrid<\/em> 3 (June 2006): 1\u201316.<\/p>\r\n \u201cPolyphonic Prosimetrum: New Approaches to Cervantes\u2019s Poetry.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 MLN <\/em>140.2 (March 2025): 485\u201391.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Review of Iberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean<\/em><\/a>, ed. Michelle M. Hamilton and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez.\u00a0 Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Renaissance Quarterly <\/em>78.2 (Summer 2025): 610\u201311.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cTo Hear with Early Ears: Hearkening to Premodern Sound Studies.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Exemplaria: Medieval \/ Early Modern \/ Theory<\/em> 36.1 (2024): 98\u2013108.<\/p>\r\n \u201cPeninsula.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Yale <\/em>Iberian Connections Glossary: Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Contemporary Critical Thought<\/em> 20 February 2023.<\/p>\r\n Review of Cervantes\u2019 Architectures: The Dangers Outside<\/em><\/a>, by Frederick A. de Armas.\u00a0 Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2022.\u00a0 Bulletin of Spanish Studies<\/em> 100.6 (2023): 928\u201329.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Review of The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain<\/em><\/a>, by Catherine Infante.\u00a0 Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2022.\u00a0 Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America<\/em> 43.1 (Spring 2023): 212\u2013214.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Review of Knowing Fictions: Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World<\/em><\/a>, by Barbara Fuchs.\u00a0 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.\u00a0 Modern Language Quarterly <\/em>83.2 (June 2022): 235\u201338.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Review of Cervantes\u2019 \u201cPersiles\u201d and the Travails of Romance<\/em><\/a>, ed. Marina S. Brownlee.\u00a0 Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019.\u00a0 Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America <\/em>42.1 (Spring 2022): 234\u201337.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Review of \u2018Aunque es el cielo de la tierra\u2019: Lo religioso en el \u201cPersiles\u201d en di\u00e1logo con la obra cervantina<\/em><\/a>, by Blanca Santos de la Morena.\u00a0 Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2019.\u00a0 Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos<\/em> 45.2 (Winter 2021 [2023]): 520\u201322.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Review of The Art of Cervantes in \u201cDon Quixote\u201d: Critical Essays<\/em><\/a>, ed. Stephen Boyd, Trudi Darby, and Terence O\u2019Reilly.\u00a0 Cambridge: Legenda, 2019.\u00a0 Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos<\/em> 44.2 (Winter 2020 [2021]): 531\u201334.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Review of The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain<\/em><\/a>, by Jos\u00e9 Luis Venegas.\u00a0 Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018.\u00a0 Hispan\u00f3fila<\/em> 187 (December 2019): 182\u201384.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cLessons on Colonial Monuments from an Unlikely Place.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 CounterPunch <\/em>22 September 2017.<\/p>\r\n Review of Pain: A Cultural History<\/em><\/a>, by Javier Moscoso.\u00a0 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.\u00a0 Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies <\/em>17.1 (2016): 107\u201309.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u201cDon Quixote<\/em>, Charlie Hebdo<\/em>, and the Politics of Laughter: From Satire to Schadenfreude.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Dissident Voice <\/em>29 April 2015.<\/p>\r\n Review of USA Cervantes: 39 cervantistas en Estados Unidos<\/em><\/a>, ed. Georgina Dopico Black and Francisco Layna Ranz.\u00a0 Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas \/ Ediciones Polifemo, 2009.\u00a0 Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America<\/em> 33.1 (Spring 2013): 223\u201326.<\/p>\r\n Review of An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa\u2019s <\/em>Topography of Algiers (1612)<\/em><\/a>, ed. Mar\u00eda Antonia Garc\u00e9s.\u00a0 Trans. Diana de Armas Wilson.\u00a0 Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.\u00a0 Hispania<\/em> 95.3 (September 2012): 547\u201348.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Review of Subject Stages: Marriage, Theatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain<\/em><\/a>, by Mar\u00eda M. Carri\u00f3n.\u00a0 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.\u00a0 Gestos <\/em>51 (April 2011): 189\u201390.<\/p>"],"ecpt_expertise":["Early modern literature and cultural studies; history of emotions, the senses, and the body; race; performance; world literature and translation studies"],"ecpt_leave":["Fall 2025"],"ecpt_website":["johnshopkins.academia.edu\/PaulMichaelJohnson"],"ecpt_books_cond":["on"],"ecpt_research":[" Johnson is the author of Affective Geographies: Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean<\/em> (University of Toronto Press, 2021). \u00a0Distinguished as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice<\/em>, it is the first monograph to recuperate a place for literature in the multidisciplinary field of Mediterranean Studies.\u00a0 The book argues that the literary is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are its geomorphological, climatic, or economic features\u2014those which, since Fernand Braudel\u2019s mid-century study, have dominated scholarship of the region.\u00a0 Affective Geographies<\/em> shows how Cervantes\u2019s writing\u2014with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience\u2014unsettles misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inherited today, thus ramifying beyond fiction to alter the broader psychological imaginary and\u00a0longue dur\u00e9e<\/em>\u00a0cultural landscape.<\/p>\r\n In addition to his book, Johnson\u2019s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals like PMLA<\/em>, Renaissance Quarterly<\/em>, Atlantic Studies<\/em>, Bulletin of Spanish Studies<\/em>, MLN<\/em>, and Exemplaria<\/em>, and in such collections as the Norton Critical Edition of \u201cDon Quijote<\/em>,\u201d <\/em>(2020), The Quest for Certainty in Early Modern Europe: From Inquisition to Inquiry <\/em>(U of Toronto P, 2020), and Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds <\/em>(Routledge, 2024). <\/em>\u00a0He also authored the critical introduction to the first modern edition of Luis V\u00e9lez de Guevara\u2019s Celos, amor y venganza <\/em>(Juan de la Cuesta Press, 2018).\u00a0 His research has been supported by the Fulbright, Harvard\u2019s Houghton Library, the RaceB4Race Second Book Institute, and the Great Lakes College Association\/Mellon Foundation.\u00a0 He is a member of the international research group Cultural History of Gestures<\/em><\/a>, sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.<\/p>\r\n Johnson\u2019s current book project, tentatively entitled Scarlet Insurgencies: Blushing and Racemaking in the Global Renaissance<\/em>, builds on his expertise in emotion, gesture, and the body as intensified sites of cultural othering.\u00a0 It argues that, long before a nineteenth-century fascination with blushing in literature and biological science, the Renaissance was pivotal in expanding, legislating, and transforming the meanings of the blush, as well as in construing it as a marker of racial difference.\u00a0 Tracking the blush across national and conceptual borders offers new perspectives on race-making in the early modern world, where an obsession with the dermal visibility of the blush indexed the construction of whiteness and the enforcement of blood purity statutes.\u00a0 It also affords a view of how social and poetic idealizations of so-called fair skin confronted such realities as the presence of the African diaspora in Europe, the opening of trade routes with the Far East, an awareness of Native Peoples in newly claimed American territories, and the politics of mestizaje <\/em>in colonial New Spain.\u00a0 Yet Scarlet Insurgencies <\/em>also contends that, as the blush\u2019s symbolism and legibility morphed over time and in response to literary tastes, popular trends, theological movements, scientific advancements, legal resolutions, demographic changes, and intercultural encounters, it acquired performative dimensions that troubled nascent attempts at racial categorization that 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