{"product_id":"spains-long-shadow-the-black-legend-off-whiteness-and-anglo-american-empire-paperback","title":"Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaría Deguzmán\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland and the Netherlands, Spain's imperial rivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, imagined Spain as a land of cruel and degenerate barbarians of \u003ci\u003ela leyenda negra\u003c\/i\u003e (the Black Legend), in league with the powers of \"blackest darkness\" and driven by \"dark motives.\" In \u003ci\u003eSpain's Long Shadow, \u003c\/i\u003e María DeGuzmán explores how this convenient demonization made its way into American culture-and proved essential to the construction of whiteness. DeGuzmán's work reaches from the late eighteenth century-in the wake of the American Revolution-to the present. Surveying a broad range of texts and images, from Poe's \"William Wilson\" and John Singer Sargent's \u003ci\u003eEl Jaleo\u003c\/i\u003e to Richard Wright's \u003ci\u003ePagan Spain\u003c\/i\u003e and Kathy Acker's \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpain's Long Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the creation of Anglo-American ethnicity as specifically American has depended on the casting of Spain as a colonial alter ego. The symbolic power of Spain in the American imagination, DeGuzmán argues, is not just a legacy of that nation's colonial presence in the Americas; it lives on as well in the \"blackness\" of Spain and Spaniards-in the assigning of people of Spanish origin to an \"off-white\" racial category that reserves the designation of white for Anglo-Americans. By demonstrating how the Anglo-American imagination needs Spain and Spaniards as figures of attraction and repulsion, DeGuzmán makes a compelling and illuminating case for treating Spain as the imperial alter ego of the United States. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, ambitious in its chronological sweep, and elegant in its interpretation of literary and visual works, DeGuzmán's book leads us to a powerful new understanding of the nature-and history-of American ethnicity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaría DeGuzmán is assistant professor of English and director of Latina\/o studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 9.02 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53052653109472,"sku":"9780816645282","price":57.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/eEUw4FVifE9780816645282.webp?v=1781287300","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/spains-long-shadow-the-black-legend-off-whiteness-and-anglo-american-empire-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}