Craig Santos Perez

[Previous installments of Craig Santos Perez's "The Poetics of Mapping Diaspora, Navigating Culture, and Being From," are here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5] 10 George Anson, British commander of a naval squadron, was sent in 1740 to attack Spanish colonies during the War of the Austrian Succession. On his military [...]

[Previous installments of Craig Santos Perez's "The Poetics of Mapping Diaspora, Navigating Culture, and Being From," are here: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3] 7 My first book includes four different maps (illustrated by Ben Viwatmanitsakul). The first (on page 28) shows Guam as an important stop on the Spanish Galleon trade route between Acapulco [...]

[To read part 1 of "The Poetics of Mapping Diaspora, Navigating Culture, and Being From," click here.] 3 European cartographic representations of the Pacific Ocean first developed at the end of the 15th century, when the Americas were incorporated into maps. The Pacific became a wide mostly empty space separating Asia and America. With Europe [...]