The Dominican Racial Imaginary
Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2828672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Micah Wright (0000-0002-5324-1110, Boise State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 506-508 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-6933600 |
| OpenAlex | W2884991080 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Book Review| August 01 2018 The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola. By Ricourt, Milagros. Critical Caribbean Studies. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 187 pp. Paper, $27.95. Micah Wright Micah Wright Boise State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 506–508. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933600 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Micah Wright; The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 506–508. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933600 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search Milagros Ricourt's most recent book is a much-needed intervention in the historiography of Dominican racial and national identity. For decades, scholars have documented Dominicans' antiblack nationalism and racial false consciousness. After the constitutional court's 2013 decision to revoke the citizenship of all children of Haitian migrants born after 1929, similar interpretations have been rehashed in the popular press. Yet Ricourt argues that these accounts uncritically reproduce and legitimate the official, but far from unchallenged, narrative of the Dominican elite. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, she deftly illustrates the evolution and survival of an alternate and subversive “national imaginary,” forged from the island's history of cimarronaje and grounded in cultural and racial hybridity.Ricourt's opening chapters examine the roots of these conflicting national imaginaries. She begins with the familiar story of the foundation of the geographic and psychological border between the nations... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 You do not currently have access to this content
Archaeology · Art history · Genealogy · Geography · Historiography · Icon · Racial hierarchy · Racism · Sociology · The Imaginary · Wright · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |