Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race
Author | : Marcos Polonia |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
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Author | : Marcos Polonia |
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Release | : 2018 |
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Author | : David Howard |
Publisher | : Signal Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781902669106 |
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.
Author | : Ernesto Sagás |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813017631 |
An examination of the historical development and political use of antihaitianismo, a set of racist and xenophobic attitudes prevalent today in the Dominican Republic. These portray Dominican people as white Catholics, while Haitians are viewed as spirit-worshipping black Africans.
Author | : Silvio Torres-Saillant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 71 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Blacks |
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This study is a reflection on the complexity of racial thinking and racial discourse in Dominican society.
Author | : Milagros Ricourt |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813584493 |
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 Yet as she pores through rare historical documents, interviews contemporary Dominicans, and recalls her own childhood memories of life on the island, Ricourt encounters persistent challenges to this myth.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 account of their national identity and instead embracing the African influence that has always been part of their cultural heritage. Building on the work of theorists ranging from Edward Said to Édouard Glissant, this book expands our understanding of how national and racial imaginaries develop, why they persist, and how they might be subverted. As it confronts Hispaniola’s dark legacies of slavery and colonial oppression, The Dominican Racial Imaginary also delivers an inspiring message on how multicultural communities might cooperate to disrupt the enduring power of white supremacy.
Author | : Franklin Franco |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317665295 |
Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros, los mulatos y la nación dominicana by esteemed Dominican scholar Franklin J. Franco. Published in 1969, this book was the first systematic work on the role of Afro-descendants in Dominican society, the first society of the modern Americas where a Black-Mulatto population majority developed during the 16th century. Franco’s work, a foundational text for Dominican ethnic studies, constituted a paradigm shift, breaking with the distortions of traditional histories that focused on the colonial elite to place Afro-descendants, slavery, and race relations at the center of Dominican history. This translation includes a new introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse University) which contextualizes Franco's work, explaining the milieu in which he was writing, and bringing the historiography of race, slavery, and the Dominican Republic up to the present. Making this pioneering work accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time, this is a must-have for anyone interested in the lasting effects of African slavery on the Dominican population and Caribbean societies.
Author | : Ginetta E. B. Candelario |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007-12-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822340379 |
An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States.
Author | : Kimberly Eison Simmons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Sheridan Wigginton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Blacks |
ISBN | : 9780817392451 |
""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"--
Author | : J. Valdez |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2011-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 023011721X |
The author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henríquez Ureña's (1884-1946) writings on language. This important twentieth century Latin American intellectual is an unavoidable reference in Hispanic Linguistics and Cultural Studies.