She tries to examine with this book what it meant to be mestizo in the early colonial era. In general, the central question is not “Who is a mestizo?” or “What is a mestizo?”. This focus in different points such as when someone is a mestizo, the category of the mestizo, and the meaning of mixture. So, Rappaport focus on when, where, and for whom was the mestizo category activated? In addition, the disappearing mestizo indicates that the procedure of distinguishment of mestizo and mulattos in the early colonial Spanish America was fluent and established in a logical dialogue in comparison with the modern racial dialogue. This book “The Disappearing mestizo” consists of six chapters. In the first chapter, she talks about making sense of the