Trajectories of Empire - Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora (Paperback)

Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent, and of their ancestors caught up in the historical process of Iberian colonial expansion, colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade. The book's chapters explore what it's like to be Black today in the so-called racial democracies of Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba; the role of medical science in the objectification and nullification of Black female personhood during slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century; the deployment of visual culture to support insurgency for a largely illiterate slave body again in the nineteenth century in Cuba; aspects of discourse that promoted the colonial project as evangelization, or alternately offered resistance to its racialized culture of dominance in the seventeenth century; and the experiences of the first generations of forced African migrants into Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the discursive template was created around their social roles as enslaved or formerly enslaved people. Trajectories of Empire's contributors come from the fields of literary criticism, visual culture, history, anthropology, popular culture (rap), and cultural studies. As the product of an interdisciplinary collective, this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Iberian or Hispanic Studies, Africana Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transatlantic Studies, as well as the general public.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2022
Authors:	Jerome C. Branche • Elizabeth Wright • Cassia Roth • Baltasar Fra-Molinero • Miguel Valerio • Miguel Olmedo • Agnes Lugo-Ortiz • Lucia Helena Costigan • Abreu Alberto • Eliseo Jacob
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-0459-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-8265-0459-0
Barcode:	9780826504593

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