[1] Buscaglia’s research interests are directed towards aspects of history and contemporary society, focusing on the construction of racial difference, collective memory, Creole ideology, colonialism, US imperialism, dictatorship, and citizenship rights.

La maldición de Santa Águeda (The Curse of Saint Agatha) gives readers access to the evils of despotism and slavery in the Spanish Antilles, making an in-depth assessment of the vices of the subjugated, and questioning the underpinnings of US imperialism.

[6] According to him, the system drew its inspiration from Judeo-Christian notions of tribal exclusivity growing into a global network of colonial exploitation that is still widely operative while currently disguised under the orthodoxies of identity politics and nationalist populisms.

In 2003 he coined the neologism of mulataje to describe a culture and way of thinking that, since the 16th Century, has continuously attempted to undo the myth of race and its mechanisms of labor control and social policing.

He has edited, translated, and written critical essays on the historical narratives of 17th-century Spanish intellectual and Mexico City native Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.

Buscaglia finds in Ramirez's testimony and in Sigüenza's complicity as interlocutor and validator, the first enunciation of a rebellious, piratical, and freedom-loving American spirit.