{"id":2937,"date":"2009-11-08T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2018-06-30T01:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T01:50:36","slug":"undoing-empire-race-and-nation-in-the-mulatto-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2937","title":{"rendered":"Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/undoing-empire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Minnesota Press<br \/>\n<\/a>2003<br \/>\n336 pages, 27 halftones<br \/>\n5 7\/8 x 9<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 0-8166-3574-9<br \/>\nPaper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3574-0<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 0-8166-3573-0<br \/>\nCloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3573-3<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/cssh\/people\/faculty\/jose-buscaglia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jos\u00e9 F. Buscaglia-Salgado<\/a><\/strong>, Professor and Chair of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies<br \/>\n<em>Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/undoing-empire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/undoing-empire\/image\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A revelatory account that places <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>mulatto<\/em><\/a><em> experience at the center of Caribbean history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This ambitious book brings to light the story of what Jos\u00e9 F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms <em>mulataje<\/em>-the ways Caribbean aesthetics offer the possibility of the ultimate erasure of racial difference. <em>Undoing Empire<\/em> gives a broad panorama stretching from the complex politics of medieval <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iberian_Peninsula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iberian<\/a> societies to the beginning of direct U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean at the end of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Buscaglia-Salgado begins with an examination of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_Irving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Irving<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;American Columbiad&#8221; as an act of historical and territorial plundering. He then traces the roots of mulatto society to the pre-1492 Iberian world, not only finding a connection between the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moors<\/a> of &#8220;Old Spain&#8221; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moreno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">morenos<\/a>-the blacks and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mulattos<\/a> of the New World-but also offering a profound critique of creole and imperial discourses. Buscaglia-Salgado reads the pursuit and contestation of what he terms the European Ideal in colonial texts, architecture, and paintings; then identifies the mulatto movement of &#8220;undoing&#8221; the Ideal in the wars that shook the nineteenth-century Caribbean from Haiti to Cuba, arguing that certain projects of national liberation have moved contrary to the historical claims to freedom in the mulatto world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A revelatory account that places mulatto experience at the center of Caribbean history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,459,8,17,394],"tags":[673,1062,28808,1060,341,1061],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","tag-cuba","tag-haiti","tag-jose-buscaglia-salgado","tag-jose-f-buscaglia-salgado","tag-university-of-minnesota-press","tag-washington-irving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56612,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/56612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}