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This book provides a Latino reading of John s prologue with special attention to how the themes of race, kinship, and the empire are part of the gospel s racial rhetoric. By drawing from the insights of Latinx texts and theology, this book reveals how the prologue provides a lens to read the entire gospel with a keen awareness of Jesus s engagement with people groups from his own family to the Roman authorities. The prologue participates in the gospel s racial rhetoric by shaping the reader s racial imagination even before a person enters the narrative. By doing so, Jesus s identity becomes constructed and defined through racial rhetoric since the opening verses of John s gospel.