Buscaglia-Salgado, Jose F.

Undoing empire race and nation in the mulatto Caribbean / [electronic resource] : Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003. - xxv, 340 p. : ill., 1 map.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-322) and index.

Introduction -- Tales of the Alhambra : Washington Irving and the immaculate conception of America -- Contesting the ideal : from the Moors of Hispania to the morenos of Hispaniola -- Bartolome de Las Casas at the end of time, or, How the Indies were won and lost -- The creole in his labyrinth : the disquieting order of the being unbecoming -- Undoing the ideal : the life and passion of the mulatto -- Moors in heaven : a second Columbus and the return of the Zaharenian curse.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Racially mixed people--Race identity--History.--Caribbean Area
Racism--History.--Caribbean Area
Self-determination, National--History.--Caribbean Area


Caribbean Area--Race relations.
Spain--Relations--Antilles, Greater.
Antilles, Greater--Relations--Spain.


Electronic books.

F2190 / .B87 2003

305.8/040729