...This chapter studies three films—Florián Rey’s Morena Clara, Eduardo García Maroto’s Canelita en rama, and Luis Lucía’s El caballero andaluz—in which white Gypsies represent the assimilation of Spain’s racial internal Other by a legitimate national...

... are inextricably tied to anxious concerns about race—especially, but not only, Gypsiness. Focusing on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century Spain—with multifaceted readings of the cinematic construction of class, gender, and sexuality—this book explores how these popular films allowed audiences...