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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.
Contents
Introduction, Jerome Branche
Part 1. The Iberian Scenario
Chapter 1. "Tracing the 'Fragmentary Facts' of a Foundational Slave Voyage," Elizabeth Wright
Chapter 2. "'Christianos nigros:' Afro-Iberian Confraternities' Social and Cultural Roles," Miguel Valerio
Chapter 3. "In Search of the Black Swordsman: Race and Martial Arts Discourse in Early Modern Iberia," Miguel Olmedo
Chapter 4. "On Enslaving and Impalement: The 'Life' and Death of Chicaba, Enslaved Black Woman in Empire," Jerome Branche
Part 2. Continuing Expansionism and the Circum-Atlantic
Chapter 5. "Facing the Enslaved: Explorations for a Transatlantic Archive," Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
Chapter 6. "A Postcard from Wakanda to the King of Spain: The Portrait of the 'Mulatos de Esmeraldas,'" Baltasar Fra-Molinero
Chapter 7. "A Transhistorical and Translocal View of the Luso-Brazilian Imperial/Colonial World through the Poetry of GregÓrio de Matos (1633-1696) to Domingos Caldas Barbosa (1740-1800)," Lucia Helena Costigan
Chapter 8. "Specters of the Womb: Enslaved Women, Childbirth and Pain in Nineteenth-Century Brazil," Cassia Roth
Part 3. Afro-Latin America: Black Marginality in the New Century
Chapter 9. "Dynamics and Racial Tensions in Twenty-First Century Post-Revolutionary Cuba," Alberto Abreu
Chapter 10. "Senzalas e Quilombos Modernos: Evoking the Legacy of Slavery in Brazilian Hip-hop," Eliseo Jacob
Chapter 11. "Their Bones Are Beneath Us: Tourism, Modernization, and Memory in the Gamboa Neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro," Maria Andrea de Santos Soares
