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Alai Reyes-Santos - Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles - 9780813572000 - V9780813572000
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Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles

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Beset by the forces of European colonialism, US imperialism, and neoliberalism, the people of the Antilles have had good reasons to band together politically and economically, yet not all Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans have heeded the calls for collective action. So what has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study, Alaí Reyes-Santos argues that the crucial factor has been the extent to which Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin. 
Our Caribbean Kin considers three key moments in the region’s history: the nineteenth century, when the antillanismo movement sought to throw off the yoke of colonial occupation; the 1930s, at the height of the region’s struggles with US imperialism; and the past thirty years, as neoliberal economic and social policies have encroached upon the islands. At each moment, the book demonstrates, specific tropes of brotherhood, marriage, and lineage have been mobilized to construct political kinship among Antilleans, while racist and xenophobic discourses have made it difficult for them to imagine themselves as part of one big family.  Recognizing the wide array of contexts in which Antilleans learn to affirm or deny kinship, Reyes-Santos draws from a vast archive of media, including everything from canonical novels to political tracts, historical newspapers to online forums, sociological texts to local jokes. Along the way, she uncovers the conflicts, secrets, and internal hierarchies that characterize kin relations among Antilleans, but she also discovers how they have used notions of kinship to create cohesion across differences.   

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Series
Critical Caribbean Studies
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813572000
SKU
V9780813572000
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About Alai Reyes-Santos
ALAÍ REYES-SANTOS is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of Oregon. She is the former codirector of the journal Revista Estudios Sociales, published by Centro Bonó in the Dominican Republic.  

Reviews for Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles
"With breadth, depth, originality, and intellectual acumen, Reyes-Santos builds on her conceptualization of transcolonial and transnational kinship through a number of social and cultural examples to arrive at a more diversified approach in literary and cultural studies."
Myrna García-Calderón
Syracuse University
"With breadth, depth, originality, and intellectual acumen, Reyes-Santos builds on her conceptualization of transcolonial and transnational kinship through a number of social and cultural examples to arrive at a more diversified approach in literary and cultural studies."
Myrna García-Calderón
Syracuse University
"Alaí Reyes-Santos's elegant work unites vernacular and elite voices to discuss nationalist thought in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Her insights help us claim our intellectual traditions in contemporary struggles for justice."
April J. Mayes
author of The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity
"Alaí Reyes-Santos's elegant work unites vernacular and elite voices to discuss nationalist thought in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Her insights help us claim our intellectual traditions in contemporary struggles for justice."
April J. Mayes
author of The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity
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