Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

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ID19968704
AuthorsKimberly Eison Simmons (corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages176
Publication date2011-04-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity Press of Florida (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5744/florida/9780813036755.001.0001
OpenAlexW1492633914
Open LibraryOL28464657M
ISBN9780813036755
LanguageEN
Citations received22

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 in the Dominican Republic with an African ancestry. 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 socio-cultural 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 called into question. How and why Dominicans define their racial identities reveal shifting coalitions between Caribbean peoples and African Americans, and proves intrinsic to understanding identities in the African diaspora

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Black People · Blacks · Blacks, race identity · Dominican National characteristics · Dominican republic · Ethnicity · National characteristics · National characteristics, american · Race identity · Social conditions

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