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"A multi-disciplinary conversation about the origin and outcome of the modern black diaspora in its Iberian and Latin American dimensions"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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 Gregório de Matos (1636-1695) to Domingos Caldas Barbosa (1740-1800) / Lúcia 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 "intervenções urbanas" in the Gamboa neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro / Maria Andrea dos Santos Soares.

Black people > Iberian Peninsula > History.

Black people > Iberian Peninsula > Social conditions.

Black people > Latin America > History.

Black people > Latin America > Social conditions.

Black people > Social conditions.

Iberian Peninsula > Race relations > History.

Latin America > Race relations > History.

Europe > Iberian Peninsula.