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Abstract
José Maldonado and Manuel José Castellanos were two Cuban pardo veterans who, in search of military status, rank, and salary, petitioned the court, making arguments that would prove subversive to the racial order. As Maldonado justified his entitlement to rank and Castellanos his to rank or salary, they recovered family narratives dating from when pardo and moreno commandants had enjoyed real power. Under the guise of symbolic recognition, new regulations greatly reduced black militias’ autonomy. These militiamen acted as de facto historians, legal interpreters, and activists during times of institutional and historical change. While they did succeed in recording their families’ past, their petitions for rank and salary were denied.
何塞-马尔多纳多(José Maldonado)和曼努埃尔-何塞-卡斯特利亚诺斯(Manuel José Castellanos)是两名古巴的老兵,他们为了获得军籍、军衔和军饷,向法院提出申诉,提出的论点将被证明是对种族秩序的颠覆。马尔多纳多为自己获得军衔的权利辩护,卡斯特拉诺斯则为自己获得军衔或薪水的权利辩护,他们恢复了家族的叙事,这些叙事可以追溯到帕尔多和莫雷诺指挥官享有实权的时代。在象征性认可的幌子下,新规定大大削弱了黑人民兵的自主权。在制度和历史变革时期,这些民兵充当了事实上的历史学家、法律解释者和活动家。虽然他们成功地记录了自己家族的过去,但他们要求获得军衔和工资的请求却遭到了拒绝。
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The Latin American Research Review is the premier interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Interdisciplinary offerings reflect ahead-of-the-curve research, as well as new directions of knowledge creation in areas such as cultural studies, Latino issues and transnationalism, all of which increasingly intersect with Latin America in ways that are intellectually challenging and illuminating.