Trajectories of Empire: Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora Branche Jerome C.
Trajectories of Empire: Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora Branche Jerome C. Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century,…
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Trajectories of Empire: Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora Branche Jerome C.
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