"Black Behind the Ears"—and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11664884 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ginetta E B Candelario (Smith College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 55-72 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Public Historian (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/tph.2001.23.4.55 |
| OpenAlex | W2066629939 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article considers the formation and representation of Washington, D.C.'s Dominican community in the Anacostia Museum's 1994 -1995 exhibit, Black Mosaic: Community, Race and Ethnicity Among Black Immigrants in D.C. The exhibit successfully pointed to the extensive historical presence of African Diaspora peoples in Latin America and explored the development of subsequent Diaspora from those communities into Washington, D.C. The case of Dominican immigrants to D.C., however, illustrates the continued privileging of a U.S.- or Anglo-centric ideation of African-American history and identity. I argue that a more accurate and politically useful formulation would call for an understanding that the African Diaspora first arrived in what would become Santo Domingo and was constitutive of Latin America several centuries before the arrival of Anglo colonizers and the formation of what would become the United States; that slavery was a polyfacetic institution that articulated with particular colonial and imperial systems and local economies in the Americas in ways that subsequently influenced racial orders and identities in multiple ways, both at home and in Diaspora; and that Dominicans' negotiations of the competing demands of blackness and Latinidad make these points especially salient
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Creole language · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Front (military · Geography · Identity (music · Immigration · Institution · Latin Americans · Political science · Racism · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Photographic and Visual Arts · Photography and Visual Culture
Ethics of heritage
Dropping the Hyphen? Becoming Latino(a)-American through Racialized Assimilation
Stratification Economics and Grassroots Development
Constructing and promoting African Diaspora identity in the Dominican Republic
Shifting Negotiations of Identity in a Dominican American Community
Navigating the Racial Terrain
Non-Hispanics with Latin American ancestry
Whiteness in paradise
Latino racial choices
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2017 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |