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Undoing empire [electronic resource] : race and nation in the mulatto Caribbean / José F. Buscaglia-Salgado.

By: Buscaglia-Salgado, Jose F.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003Description: xxv, 340 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- Caribbean Area -- History | Racism -- Caribbean Area -- History | Self-determination, National -- Caribbean Area -- History | Caribbean Area -- Race relations | Spain -- Relations -- Antilles, Greater | Antilles, Greater -- Relations -- SpainGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.8/040729 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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 -- Bartolomé 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.
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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 -- Bartolomé 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.