José Buscaglia, Ph.D.

Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

Research Topics:

Caribbean, Latin American, Iberian Studies
History of ideas and social institutions
Discourse on the human body in theorizing the public sphere
Citizenship rights
Historical memory
Political imaginary in the Atlantic World
Racialism and institutional persistence of the concept of race
- Coined the neologism of “mulataje” as a practice of thinking and being that, since the 16th Century, has continuously attempted to undo the calculations of racialist ideology and its mechanisms of labor control and social policing.
- Reclaimed the term “Usonian” to refer to the peoples, nationalist ideologies and neo-imperial tradition of the United States of America.

Undoing Empire, Race, and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (Madrid: Polifemo/CSIC, 2011).
“Las Antillas, nuevamente, ‘entre imperios’ y de cómo enfrentarse al insularismo racialista para alcanzar el objetivo de una confederación regional“ (The Antilles, once again, “between empires” and on how to confront racialist insularism to reach the goal of a regional confederation), Revista de Indias, Madrid, Spain, 75.263 (2015): 205-38.
“Race and the Constitutive Inequality of the Modern/Colonial Condition,” Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought: Historical and Institutional Trajectories (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015): 109-124. ISBN 9781137554291.
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez/Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: Edited and translated by José F. Buscaglia-Salgado (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018).