acknowledgments
Portions of this book have been published previously. A version of Chapter 1
appeared as “The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor,” in
Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings, ed.
Goran V. Stanivukovic (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 ) and is repro-
duced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan. A version of Chapter 2 appeared
as “Othelloand Africa: Postcolonialism Reconsidered,” William and Mary
Quarterly, 3 rd series, 54 , no. 1 (January 1997 ) and is reprinted by permission
of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Chap-
ter 4 , “Too Many Blackamoors: Deportation, Discrimination, and Elizabeth I,”
is reprinted by permission of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500 – 190046 , no.
2 (Spring 2006 ).
It has been a great pleasure working with Mariana Martinez, Erica Gins-
burg, John Hubbard, and especially Jerry Singerman at the University of
Pennsylvania Press, and I am grateful to the anonymous readers as well as to
the anonymous copyeditor, all whose suggestions have strengthened this
book. Thanks, too, to AnnaLee Pauls, John Delaney, and Charles Greene at
Princeton University Library for their assistance and enthusiasm in helping
me access the Special Maps Collection for the cover illustration.
My research for this project has been enabled by a Solmsen Fellowship
from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wis-
consin, Madison, and I am happily indebted to Paul Boyer, Susanne Wofford,
Jacques Lezra, and Heather Dubrow, who served as generous hosts, as well as
to Renée Baernstein and Wietse de Boer, who offered invaluable friendship
and feedback. The project has been supported additionally by a fellowship
from the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, for participation in the Black
Atlantic Project, and by the input of my seminar colleagues, especially Her-
man Bennett and Jennifer Morgan. Crucial too have been opportunities to
share my work with early modernists in the seminar “Constructing Race,” run