The ‘Indian Queen’ of the four continents

Tracing the ‘undifferentiated Indian’ through Europe’s encounters with Muslims, anti-Blackness, and conquest of the ‘New World

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ID7739623
AuthorsShaista Patel (Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego, USA, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume33
Issue3
Pages414-436
Publication date2019-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09502386.2019.1584906
OpenAlexW2918605177
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited26

This article places Columbus's travels to the New World within a much older history of eight centuries of Muslim/Moor presence on the Iberian Peninsula. It argues that the Orientalist logics underlining the creation of the 'New World Indian' have a long history interpellated through figures of the Moors and other Africans whom Europeans knew for centuries before they encountered the Indigenous peoples of the 'New World.' This article argues for the need to bring together seemingly discrepant figures, spatialities, and temporalities in order to re/examine what we know and have yet to learn about entanglements of colonialism, capitalism, race, caste, gender, sexuality, and other social formations. Such a reading of the figure not only brings to fore unexamined relationalities but also demands that we think critically and concretely about questions of our complicity in upholding different systems of violence

Caste · Complicity · Muslim world · Orientalism · Temporalities · World history · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Hispanic-African Historical Relations

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