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