Undoing empire [electronic resource] : race and nation in the mulatto Caribbean / Jos�e F. Buscaglia-Salgado.
Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.Description: xxv, 340 p. : ill., 1 mapISBN:- 0816635730 (HC : alk. paper)
- 0816635749 (PB : alk. paper)
- 305.8/040729 21
- F2190 .B87 2003eb

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 -- Bartolom�e 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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