Undoing empire
Subtitle: race and nation in the mulatto Caribbean
By: José F. Buscaglia-Salgado.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: 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 -- Spain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tales of the Alhambra : Washington Irving and the immaculate conception of America; title: Contesting the ideal : from the Moors of Hispania to the morenos of Hispaniola; title: Bartolomé de Las Casas at the end of time, or, How the Indies were won and lost; title: The creole in his labyrinth : the disquieting order of the being unbecoming; title: Undoing the ideal : the life and passion of the mulatto; title: Moors in heaven : a second Columbus and the return of the Zaharenian curse.