ISBN:
9780813584485
,
9780813584478
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 187 pages
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karte
Series Statement:
Critical Caribbean studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.80097293
Keywords:
Alltag, Brauchtum
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Geschichte
;
Nationalismus
;
Racism History
;
Ethnicity History
;
Nationalism History
;
Blacks History
;
Creoles History
;
Cultural pluralism History
;
Anti-racism History
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
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Dominican Republic Race relations
;
History
;
Dominican Republic Social life and customs
;
Dominican Republic Social conditions
;
Dominikanische Republik
;
Dominikanische Republik
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
Abstract:
"The Dominican Racial Imaginary subverts the way of knowledge of Dominican elites by telling the stories of 'the forced delivered child.' This child (a blend of Africans, Tainos, and Spanish) fled to the mountains escaping the abuses of the colonizer and became an adult in maroon communities. This book takes a look at history as a space of interrogation. When and how did Africa become part of the Dominican racial mix? In renewing the past, rather than the imposed Indo-Hispanic racial homogenization narrative, we might see something more...the historical creation of a multiracial rainbow. The stories the child/adult tell about the slave traffic, anti-colonial movements, the division of the island, more anti-colonial revolutions, abolition, and renewal of colonial oppressions. These stories also tell about cultural constructions unique to the island and the formation of a subversive racial imaginary. Battles against the continuity of white supremacist values people cultural practices, and ways of knowing attest to this subverted imaginary. In telling the stories of women dancing under the spell of the snake, of youngsters in New York City wearing dreadlocks, of Dominican intellectuals and politicians searching for their true identity, of people creating cooperation at the Haitian-Dominican border, this book strongly argues that there is a nation of Dominicans battling against the continuity of white supremacist values"...Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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