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Author Buscaglia-Salgado, Jose F.

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

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

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Description xxv, 340 p. : ill., 1 map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-322) and index.
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 -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0816635730 (HC : alk. paper)
0816635749 (PB : alk. paper)

 
    
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