[Download Book] The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola Writen - Milagros Ricourt
The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola
Honorable mention, 2017 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history???Seeking answers, Milagros Ricourt uncovers a complex and often contradictory Dominican racial imaginary. Observing how Dominicans have traditionally identified in opposition to their neighbors on the island of Hispaniola?Haitians of African descent?she finds that the Dominican Republic?s social elite has long propagated a national creation myth that conceives of the Dominican as a perfect hybrid of native islanders and Spanish settlers. Yet as she pores through rare historical documents, interviews contemporary Dominicans, and recalls her own childhood memories of life on the island, Ricourt encounters persistent challenges to this myth. Through fieldwork at the Dominican-Haitian border, she gives a firsthand look at how Dominicans are resisting the official
Product details: The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola
Author : Milagros Ricourt
Pages : 240 pages
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
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ISBN-10 : 0813584477
ISBN-13 : 9780813584478
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