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Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the ~ Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic New World Diasporas Kimberly Eison Simmons on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Documents a seismic shift in Dominican identity over the last two decades which the author argues is the result of contact with the that Dominicans have moved away from seeing themselves as indio and increasingly selfidentify as BlackRobin Derby
Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the ~ course surrounding race and identity seldom references Africa—or being of African descent—since Dominican racial identity as constructed privileges mixture and emphasizes European and indigenous pasts As a metaphor however sancocho captures this sense of mixture as the national dish of the Dominican Republic
Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the ~ whom they defined as black Unpacking the term black in the Dominican Republic evokes an African past dark skin color poverty and other negative associations In a relational sense Dominican mixedness is constructed visàvis Haitian blackness but this meaning shifts in the United States because of the situated meaning of blackness
Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the ~ ethnic racial and national identities In the Dominican Republic most people perceive themselves as darkskinned whites or light mulattoes only Haitians are considered black The Dominican system of racial classification labeling people along a wide color continuum ranging from black to white clashes
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Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the ~ 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 with African ancestry in the Dominican Republic
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Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the ~ 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 sociocultural 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
Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the ~ reconstructing racial and color identities having one foot “here” and the other “there” because of research family and a connection to place and working with scholars and activists to build alliances in the African Diaspora When I left the Dominican Republic in 2004 it was to be closer to family in the United States and
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