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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-322) and index
