Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain

Akiko Tsuchiya is Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. She is coeditor (with N. Michelle Murray) of Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World, also published by SUNY Press. Aurélie Vialette is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. She is the author of Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses, which was a 2019 recipient of the North American Catalan Society Prize for an Outstanding Work in the Field of Catalan Studies.

"Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain contributes to a growing area of Global Hispanophone studies and should be of interest to scholars of modern and contemporary Iberian studies concerned with questions of empire and cultural legacies of the transatlantic slave trade." — Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies"Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain accomplishes its goal of probing into different interdisciplinary fields, to understand thoroughly the legacies of slavery in contemporary Spain. Likewise, the book fulfills its promise by addressing a field that has been little studied and that leads us to rethink why Spain has had such great difficulty in confronting its colonial past. The diversity of materials makes this anthology an indispensable tool for the study of the post-slavery period in Spain." — Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies"The book offers a wealth of information about Spain's involvement in slavery as well as about present-day Spanish attitudes towards it. Its structure—leading from stories of abuse to accounts of Black creativity—has been well thought out. The overall message is that much work remains to be done in Spain to produce public awareness of the country's slave-owning and slave-trading past." — Observing Memories"…Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain fills a significant gap in the academic debates on the legacies of slavery in the Spanish context, where memory policies have been scarce and fragmentary in relation to its neighboring countries. Without doubt, the work … will become a bibliographical reference for those who are studying and confronting the economic, cultural and symbolic legacies of slavery, and the ways in which they have been reflected, hidden and questioned in different cultural artefacts, both inside and outside of Spain." — HUELLAS"Underpinned by meticulous archival sleuthing, this hard-hitting, landmark volume makes an exceptional contribution, in both depth and breadth. A number of the essays are, quite simply, stunning for their intellectual reach, historical questioning, and uncompromising engagement with our contemporary moment. Contributors not only expose the persistence of racial discrimination in our present day but also provide an indispensable foundation for re-assessing Spain's involvement in slavery in a number of locales, including London, Fernando Poo, and the Philippines. There is nothing like it on the subject." — Christine Arkinstall, author of Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, Citizenship

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAkiko Tsuchiya and Aurélie VialettePart 1: The Legacies of Slavery in the Archive 1. The Houseboys of Fernando Poo: Domestic Service in Spanish Colonial AfricaBenita Sampedro Vizcaya2. Echoes of the Spanish Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century LondonKirsty Hooper3. Cosmetic of the Archive: An Autopsy of Slave Trader Antonio López y López and the General Tobacco Company in the PhilippinesAurélie Vialette4. From Slavery to Anti-Black Racism: Racial Ideas from Cuba to CataloniaMartín Rodrigo-Alharilla and Juliana Nalerio, translated by María Cristina UrruelaPart 2: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery in Cultural Memory Sites 5. Confronting the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in Public Spaces: Debates around Racist and Colonial Monuments in Modern CataloniaAkiko Tsuchiya6. Spain and the Year of Toppled Statues of Enslavers and Colonizers: The Examples of Madrid and CádizUlrike Schmieder7. Memorialized Blackness: The Case of the Museo AtlánticoJeffrey K. Coleman8. Public Memory Policies in Spain: How Is the Colonial Past Addressed?Oriol López Badell and Celeste Muñoz Martínez, interviewed by Akiko Tsuchiya and Aurélie Vialette, translated by María Cristina UrruelaPart 3 Interpreting the Legacies of Slavery in Literature, Music, and Visual Culture 9. Pedro Blanco, the Accursed Slave Driver: Literature and Historical Memory of Slavery in SpainGustau Nerín, translated by María Cristina Urruela10. Searching for Cayetana's Daughter: From Goya to Carmen PosadasRosalía Cornejo-Parriego11. The Urgency of a Black Iberian ThoughtTania Safura Adam, interviewed by Akiko Tsuchiya and Aurélie Vialette, translated by María Cristina Urruela12. On Making Art from Hidden PlacesYinka Esi Graves, interviewed by Akiko Tsuchiya and Aurélie Vialette13. Hispano-tropicalism: Flamencology and the Denial of Black Presence in SpainMiguel Ángel Rosales, translated by María Cristina UrruelaContributorsIndex