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Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos--Christian converts from Islam--in the early modern Americas, and how their presence challenged notions of what it meant to be Spanish as the Atlantic empire expanded.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Latino America in the Umma/ the Umma in Latino America -- Part I Reconsidering History -- Chapter 1 "De los Prohibidos": Mu slims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America -- Chapter 2 African Rebellion and Refuge on the Edge of Empire -- Chapter 3 Ethnic and Religious Identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898–1954) -- Part II Contemporary Cartographies -- Chapter 4 Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina: Comparing Community and Identity Configurations -- Chapter 5 Conversion, Revivalism, and Tradition: The Religious Dynamics of Mu slim Communities in Brazil -- Chapter 6 Guests of Islam: Conversion and the Institutionalization of Islam in Mexico -- Chapter 7 Cubans Searching for a New Faith in a New Context -- Chapter 8 Muslims in Martinique -- Chapter 9 Forming Islamic Religious Identity among Trinidadians in the Age of Social Networks -- Part III Islam Latina/o -- Chapter 10 Discovering a Historical Consciousness: The Creation of a US Latina/o Muslim Identity -- Chapter 11 Mapping Mu slim Communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida -- Chapter 12 Double-Edged Marginality and Agency: Latina Conversion to Islam -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index