Trajectories of empire : transhispanic reflections on the African diaspora / edited by Jerome C. Branche.
| Other author | Branche, Jerome editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022] |
| Description | vii, 301 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Jerome C. Branche -- Tracing the 'fragmentary facts' of a foundational slave voyage / Elizabeth R. Wright -- 'Christianos nigros' : Afro-Iberian confraternities' social and cultural roles / Miguel A. Valerio -- In search of the black swordsman : race and martial arts discourse in early modern Iberia / Miguel Olmedo Gobante -- On enslaving and impalement : the 'life' and death of Chicaba, black woman in empire / Jerome C. Branche -- Facing the enslaved : explorations for a transatlantic archive / Agnes Lugo-Ortiz -- A postcard from Wakanda to the King of Spain : the portrait of the 'Mulatos de Esmeraldas' / Baltasar Fra-Molinero -- A transhistorical and translocal view of the Luso-Brazilian imperial/colonial world through the poetry of Greg orio de Matos (1636-1695) to Domingos Caldas Barbosa (1740-1800) / L ucia Helena Costigan -- Silences and the corporeal : the enslaved body in (historical) pain / Cassia Roth -- Racial dynamics and tensions in twenty-first century post-revolutionary Cuba / Alberto Abreu -- Senzalas e Quilombos Modernos : evoking the legacy of slavery in Brazilian hip hop / Eliseo Jacob -- Honoring the bones beneath us : conjuring black heritage in the performances of "interven c oes urbanas" in the Gamboa neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro / Maria Andrea dos Santos Soares. |
| Abstract | "A multi-disciplinary conversation about the origin and outcome of the modern black diaspora in its Iberian and Latin American dimensions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | 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 in the historical processes of Iberian colonial expansion, colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade--back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Trajectories of empire Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022] 9780826504616 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022000550 |
| ISBN | 9780826504593 |
| ISBN | 0826504590 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780826504609 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0826504604 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
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