Sherina Feliciano-Santo
Biographic Data
| ID | 905647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherina Feliciano-Santo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherina |
| FAMILY NAME | Feliciano-Santo |
| SIGNATURE | FELICIANO-SANTO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1288-4096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Linguistic Anthropology
In this brief essay, we outline the emergence of the North American discipline of linguistic anthropology. Taking a chronological approach, we trace its disciplinary roots in the European fields of comparative and historical linguistics, its development in the 20th century of semiotic approaches to studying language as socioculturally contextualized practice, and the burgeoning in the 21st century of an engaged anthropolitical linguistics. The di…
Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power
Peer Reviewed
Enfoques raciolingüísticos y análisis multidimensionales de los vínculos entre la raza, el lenguaje y el poder
Peer Reviewed
Reflections on Layers of Belief, Material and Spiritual Survivals, and Colonialisms in Puerto Rico
Reflections on Layers of Belief, Material and Spiritual Survivals, and Colonialisms in Puerto Rico Sherina Feliciano-Santos I was nine when I moved “back” to Puerto Rico from Chicago. While my parents had made many such moves back to the island, this was my first time living there, a relocation that coincided with the arrival of Hurricane Hugo. The preparations that went along with the threat of a storm that size welcomed us to Puerto Rico. I rem…
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to claim what is commonly thought to be an extinct eth…
"Of Cops and "Karens
This essay considers how racial paradigms in the United States produce white subjectivity as part of a broader structure of policing Blackness that becomes bureaucratically encoded through law enforcement agents and their discursive practices. Given this, it is not unexpected that the figure of the "Karen" and agents of law enforcement police similar behaviors and figures, given they embody the same ethos of white supremacy, differentiated largel…
Negotiation of ethnoracial configurations among Puerto Rican Taíno activists
In Puerto Rico, scholarly histories and common knowledge have presumed that the Taíno - the pre-Columbian population of the island - became extinct at some time between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. However, various people on the island challenge this assumption by claiming to be Taíno. The public reemergence of Taíno groups in Puerto Rico is highly disputed by scholars, governmental institutions and non-Taíno populations of the region,…
Visibility and Agency
Released on May 5, 2018, alongside its performance on Saturday Night Live, Childish Gambino's (Donald Glover's musical stage name) “This is America” was certified platinum by the end of the month o
The Storm After Maria
Prophetic repairs
How do you speak Taíno? Indigenous Activism and Linguistic Practices in Puerto Rico
This paper analyzes emergent speech practices among Taíno activists in Puerto Rico. While historical narratives of the Caribbean and conventional knowledge have largely presumed that the Taíno, an indigenous population of the Caribbean, have been extinct, several persons in Puerto Rico are actively identifying with and mobilizing around this ethnic category. One of the Taíno-identified challenges in such mobilization is that the Taíno language is…
Interactional Surveillance and Self-Censorship in Encounters of Dominion
This paper addresses the contradictions inherent (adherent) in indigenous nations' (and peoples') articulations of self-determination and sovereignty which are unavoidably constrained by some dominating nation-state, resulting in their "dependent" independence. While such constraints and contradictions crosscut a variety of domains from policy-making and implementation to global recognition of human rights, we attend to the interactional scale. T…
"Of Cops and "Karens
This essay considers how racial paradigms in the United States produce white subjectivity as part of a broader structure of policing Blackness that becomes bureaucratically encoded through law enforcement agents and their discursive practices. Given this, it is not unexpected that the figure of the "Karen" and agents of law enforcement police similar behaviors and figures, given they embody the same ethos of white supremacy, differentiated largel…
Negotiation of ethnoracial configurations among Puerto Rican Taíno activists
In Puerto Rico, scholarly histories and common knowledge have presumed that the Taíno - the pre-Columbian population of the island - became extinct at some time between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. However, various people on the island challenge this assumption by claiming to be Taíno. The public reemergence of Taíno groups in Puerto Rico is highly disputed by scholars, governmental institutions and non-Taíno populations of the region,…
How do you speak Taíno? Indigenous Activism and Linguistic Practices in Puerto Rico
This paper analyzes emergent speech practices among Taíno activists in Puerto Rico. While historical narratives of the Caribbean and conventional knowledge have largely presumed that the Taíno, an indigenous population of the Caribbean, have been extinct, several persons in Puerto Rico are actively identifying with and mobilizing around this ethnic category. One of the Taíno-identified challenges in such mobilization is that the Taíno language is…
Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power
Peer Reviewed
Prophetic repairs
Interactional Surveillance and Self-Censorship in Encounters of Dominion
This paper addresses the contradictions inherent (adherent) in indigenous nations' (and peoples') articulations of self-determination and sovereignty which are unavoidably constrained by some dominating nation-state, resulting in their "dependent" independence. While such constraints and contradictions crosscut a variety of domains from policy-making and implementation to global recognition of human rights, we attend to the interactional scale. T…
Interactional Surveillance and Self-Censorship in Encounters of Dominion
This paper addresses the contradictions inherent (adherent) in indigenous nations' (and peoples') articulations of self-determination and sovereignty which are unavoidably constrained by some dominating nation-state, resulting in their "dependent" independence. While such constraints and contradictions crosscut a variety of domains from policy-making and implementation to global recognition of human rights, we attend to the interactional scale. T…
The Storm After Maria
Prophetic repairs
How do you speak Taíno? Indigenous Activism and Linguistic Practices in Puerto Rico
This paper analyzes emergent speech practices among Taíno activists in Puerto Rico. While historical narratives of the Caribbean and conventional knowledge have largely presumed that the Taíno, an indigenous population of the Caribbean, have been extinct, several persons in Puerto Rico are actively identifying with and mobilizing around this ethnic category. One of the Taíno-identified challenges in such mobilization is that the Taíno language is…
Visibility and Agency
Released on May 5, 2018, alongside its performance on Saturday Night Live, Childish Gambino's (Donald Glover's musical stage name) “This is America” was certified platinum by the end of the month o
Negotiation of ethnoracial configurations among Puerto Rican Taíno activists
In Puerto Rico, scholarly histories and common knowledge have presumed that the Taíno - the pre-Columbian population of the island - became extinct at some time between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. However, various people on the island challenge this assumption by claiming to be Taíno. The public reemergence of Taíno groups in Puerto Rico is highly disputed by scholars, governmental institutions and non-Taíno populations of the region,…
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to claim what is commonly thought to be an extinct eth…
"Of Cops and "Karens
This essay considers how racial paradigms in the United States produce white subjectivity as part of a broader structure of policing Blackness that becomes bureaucratically encoded through law enforcement agents and their discursive practices. Given this, it is not unexpected that the figure of the "Karen" and agents of law enforcement police similar behaviors and figures, given they embody the same ethos of white supremacy, differentiated largel…
Reflections on Layers of Belief, Material and Spiritual Survivals, and Colonialisms in Puerto Rico
Reflections on Layers of Belief, Material and Spiritual Survivals, and Colonialisms in Puerto Rico Sherina Feliciano-Santos I was nine when I moved “back” to Puerto Rico from Chicago. While my parents had made many such moves back to the island, this was my first time living there, a relocation that coincided with the arrival of Hurricane Hugo. The preparations that went along with the threat of a storm that size welcomed us to Puerto Rico. I rem…
Raciolinguistic approaches and multidimensional analyses of the links among race, language, and power
Peer Reviewed
Enfoques raciolingüísticos y análisis multidimensionales de los vínculos entre la raza, el lenguaje y el poder
Peer Reviewed
Linguistic Anthropology
In this brief essay, we outline the emergence of the North American discipline of linguistic anthropology. Taking a chronological approach, we trace its disciplinary roots in the European fields of comparative and historical linguistics, its development in the 20th century of semiotic approaches to studying language as socioculturally contextualized practice, and the burgeoning in the 21st century of an engaged anthropolitical linguistics. The di…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)