Bringing critical race theory and science fiction together, Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities inherent in the genre of science fiction toward challenging perceptions of race, ethnicity, whiteness, and Blackness in US culture.

Examining island-wide and diasporic literary and cultural productions from 1791 to 2002, Sophie Maríñez challenges the “fatal conflict” paradigm dominating views of the relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the framework of the Spiral, a concept at the core of Spiralism, a Haitian literary aesthetic developed in the 1960s.