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9%OFFSalgado Jose F. Buscaglia - Undoing Empire - 9780816635740 - V9780816635740
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Undoing Empire

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Description for Undoing Empire Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.

A revelatory account that places mulatto experience at the center of Caribbean history

This ambitious book brings to light the story of what José F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms mulataje—the ways Caribbean aesthetics offer the possibility of the ultimate erasure of racial difference. Undoing Empire gives a broad panorama stretching from the complex politics of medieval Iberian societies to the beginning of direct U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean at the end of the nineteenth century.

Buscaglia-Salgado begins with an examination of Washington Irving’s “American Columbiad” as an act of historical and territorial plundering. He then traces the roots of mulatto society to the pre-1492 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816635740
SKU
V9780816635740
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99-50

About Salgado Jose F. Buscaglia
José F. Buscaglia-Salgado is assistant professor of modern languages and comparative literature and director of Cuban and Caribbean Programs at the University at Buffalo.

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