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The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola
Milagros Ricourt
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Description for The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola
paperback. Series: Critical Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 maps, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJD; HBTQ; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Critical Caribbean Studies
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813584478
SKU
V9780813584478
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About Milagros Ricourt
MILAGROS RICOURT is a professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican studies at Lehman College, the City University of New York. She is the author of Women in Latin America and Dominicans in New York City: Power from the Margins, and coauthor of Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in a New York City Neighborhood.
Reviews for The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola
"A necessary book to rethink Dominican racial identities. Ricourt challenges the hegemonic national imaginary and brings forward alternative discourses and practices highlighting the presence of Dominican Black identities and culture."
José Itzigsohn
professor of sociology, Brown University
"By reconsidering Dominican Vodou as the living legacy of Indigenous-Black liberation projects, Ricourt manages to make sense of how Dominican ... Read more
José Itzigsohn
professor of sociology, Brown University
"By reconsidering Dominican Vodou as the living legacy of Indigenous-Black liberation projects, Ricourt manages to make sense of how Dominican ... Read more