Ginetta E B Candelario

Black behind the Ears

Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Ginetta E. B. Candelario's "Black behind the Ears" argues compellingly that any serious effort to understand Dominican ideas and practices of race in the ancestral homeland as well as in the diaspora requires a large conceptual framework, a triangular geography of knowledge, and a cultural history formed by Dominican nation-building projects, the difficult plight of the Haitian Republic in the midst of a negrophobic world, the impact of U.S. racial thought, and the Latin American glorification of the Hispanic heritage. Candelario's book remarkably dares to bring apparently disparate discursive sites to interact convincingly and engagingly in her analysis. The author renders facile readings of the Dominican chapter of the black experience in the Americas as exceptional or pathological simply unsustainable. She shows instead that it invites White Americans, African Americans, and other Latinos to revisit long-held assumptions about racial categories, ethnic identity, nationality, and the ideologies behind taking the 'visible' for 'real' in matters of race."--Silvio Torres-Saillant, coauthor of "The Dominican Americans"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340379
• ISBN-10: 0822340372
• Artikelnr.: 22890061

Autorenporträt

Ginetta E. B. Candelario

Inhaltsangabe

Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. "We Declare That We Are Indians": Dominican Identity Displays
and Discourses in Travel Writing, Museums, Beauty Shops, and Bodies 1
1. "It Is Said That Haiti Is Getting Blacker and Blacker": Traveling
Narratives of Dominican Identity 35
2. "The Africans have No [Public] History": The Museo del Hombre Dominicano
and Indigenous Displays of Dominican Identity 83
3. "I Could Go the African American Route": Dominicans in the Black Mosaic
of Washington, D.C. 129
4. "They Are Taken into Account for Their Opinions": Making Community and
Displaying Identity at a Dominican Beauty Shop in New York City 177
5. "Black Women are Confusing, but the Hair Lets You Know": Perceiving the
Boundaries of Dominicanidad 223
Conclusion: "Black Behind the Ears, and Up Front, Too": Ideological Code
Switching and Ambiguity in Dominican Identities 256
Notes 265
References 297
Index 323