Painting between the lines
The Cape Verdean community of Colonial Dakar, 1920–1945
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18984605 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel M Petrocelli (0009-0002-9544-7093, Santa Monica College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-168 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00083968.2015.1100545 |
| OpenAlex | W2473055449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, Cape Verdean immigrants to Dakar, colonial capital of French West Africa, became a small but important community in terms of significance in both the urban economy and the colonial framework of race and identity. They occupied important labor niches valuable to the colonizer such as painting and domestic work and attached those fields to a unique identity to which only they belonged. Able to capitalize on the ambiguity inherent to colonial race and identity policies, Cape Verdeans bridged categories common to state policies – particularly “foreign” and “native” – in ways not adequately captured by the concept of intermediaries often employed in examinations of immigrant populations to West Africa. Their insertion in Dakar reveals the permeability of such colonial concepts as well as the opportunities immigrants made in town
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cape · Cape verde · Capital (architecture) · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · History of Africa · Identity (music) · Immigration · Intermediary · Painting · Political science · Portuguese · Race (biology) · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Gender Studies · History · North African History and Literature
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Cities and Suburbs
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |