Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic write by Kimberly Eison Simmons. This book was released on 2009. Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Latin America and the Caribbean, racial issues are extremely complex and fluid, particularly the nature of 'blackness.' What it means to be called black is still very different for an African American living in the United States than it is for an individual in the Dominican Republic with an African ancestry. Racial categories were far from concrete as the Dominican populace grew, altered, and solidified around the present notions of identity. Kimberly Simmons explores the fascinating socio-cultural shifts in Dominicans' racial categories, concluding that Dominicans are slowly embracing blackness and ideas of African ancestry. Simmons also examines the movement of individuals between the Dominican Republic and the United States, where traditional notions of indio are challenged, debated, and called into question. How and why Dominicans define their racial identities reveal shifting coalitions between Caribbean peoples and African Americans, and proves intrinsic to understanding identities in the African diaspora.
The Mulatto Republic
The Mulatto Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mulatto Republic write by April J. Mayes. This book was released on 2022-04-19. The Mulatto Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Impels the reader to not lean solely on the crutch of Dominican anti-Haitianism in order to understand Dominican identity and state formation. Mayes proves that there was a multitude of factors that sharpen our knowledge of the development of race and nation in the Dominican Republic.”—Millery Polyné, author of From Douglass to Duvalier “A fascinating book. Mayes discusses the roots of anti-Haitianism, the Dominican elite, and the ways in which race and nation have been intertwined in the history of the Dominican Republic. What emerges is a very interesting and engaging social history.”—Kimberly Eison Simmons, author of Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic was once celebrated as a mulatto racial paradise. Now the island nation is idealized as a white, Hispanic nation, having abandoned its many Haitian and black influences. The possible causes of this shift in ideologies between popular expressions of Dominican identity and official nationalism has long been debated by historians, political scientists, and journalists. In The Mulatto Republic, April Mayes looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin color, and culture. She explores significant historical factors and events that have led the nation, for much of the twentieth century, to favor privileged European ancestry and Hispanic cultural norms such as the Spanish language and Catholicism. Mayes seeks to discern whether contemporary Dominican identity is a product of the Trujillo regime—and, therefore, only a legacy of authoritarian rule—or is representative of a nationalism unique to an island divided into two countries long engaged with each other in ways that are sometimes cooperative and at other times conflicted. Her answers enrich and enliven an ongoing debate. Publication of this digital edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Black Behind the Ears
Black Behind the Ears - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Behind the Ears write by Ginetta E. B. Candelario. This book was released on 2007-12-12. Black Behind the Ears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States.
Unmastering the Script
Unmastering the Script - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unmastering the Script write by Sheridan Wigginton. This book was released on 2019. Unmastering the Script available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ""Unmastering the Script: The Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity" examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the Haitian Other in Dominican society. The authors analyze how social science textbooks and historical biographies intended for young Dominicans reflect an increasing shift toward a clear and public inclusion of blackness in Dominican identity that serves to renegotiate the country's long-standing "anti-black" racial master script. This book argues that although many of the attempts at this inclusion reflect a lessening of "black denial," when considered as a whole, the materials often struggle to find a consistent and coherent narrative for the place of blackness within Dominican identity, particularly as blackness continues to be meaningfully related to the otherness of Haitian racial identity"--
Coloring the Nation
Coloring the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coloring the Nation write by David Howard. This book was released on 2001. Coloring the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the significance of racial theorizing in Dominican society and its manifestation in everyday life. The author examines how ideas of skin colour and racial identity influence a wide spectrum of Dominicans in how they view themselves and their Haitian neighbours.
