Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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Undoing Empire brings to light the story of what Jos F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms mulatajethe ways Caribbean aesthetics offer the possibility of the ultimate erasure of racial difference. Undoing Empire gives a broad panorama stretching from the complex politics of medieval Iberian societies to the beginning of direct U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Undoing empire.
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Racially mixed people-- Race identity-- Caribbean Area-- History.
Racism-- Caribbean Area-- History.
Self-determination, National-- Caribbean Area-- History.