Description: Reconstructing Racial Identity And The African Past In The Dominican Republic, Paperback by Simmons, Kimberly Eison, ISBN 0813036755, ISBN-13 9780813036755, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Reconstructing Racial Identity And The African Past In The Domini
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Ethnic Studies / General, Sociology / General, Black Studies (Global), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Item Weight: 8.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Kimberly Eison Simmons
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Series: New World Diasporas Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
