Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-446) and index.
An imperial caste: inverted racialization in the architecture of Ottoman sovereignty / Leslie Peirce -- Hierarchies of age and gender in the Mughal construction of domesticity and empire / Ruby Lal -- Race and the Middle Ages: the case of Spain and its Jews / David Nirenberg -- The Spanish race / Barbara Fuchs -- Black Legend and global conspiracies: Spain, the Inquisition, and the emerging modern world / Irene Silverblatt -- Of books, popes, and huacas; or, the dilemmas of being Christian / Gonzalo Lamana -- view of the empire from the Altepetl: Nahua historical and global imagination / SilverMoon, Michael Ennis -- "Race" and "class" in the Spanish colonies of America: a dynamic social perception / Yolanda Fabiola Orquera -- Unfixing race / Kathryn Burns -- Discipline and love: Linschoten and the Estado da India / Carmen Nocentelli -- Rereading Theodore de Bry's Black Legend / Patricia Gravatt -- West of Eden: American gold, Spanish greed, and the discourses of English imperialism / Edmund Valentine Campos -- Blackening "the Turk" in Roger Ascham's A report of Germany (1553) / Linda Bradley Salamon -- Nations into persons / Jeffrey Knapp -- Afterword: What does the Black Legend have to do with race? / Walter D. Mignolo