Undoing empire : race and nation in the mulatto Caribbean / Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buscaglia-Salgado, José F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiracial people--Race identity--Caribbean Area--History.

Multiracial people.

Racism--Caribbean Area--History.

Racism.

Self-determination, National--Caribbean Area--History.

Self-determination, National.

Caribbean Area--Race relations.

Caribbean Area.

Spain--Relations--Antilles, Greater.

Spain.

Antilles, Greater--Relations--Spain.

Antilles, Greater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Undoing Empire brings to light the story of what José F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms mulataje-the 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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-322) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9155-X

OCLC:

476095320