This is the Soul of Aruba Speaking

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ID4223573
AuthorsChelsea Schields (0000-0001-9602-3749, City University of New York, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume90
Issue3-4
Pages195-224
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1382-2373 • E-ISSN: 2213-4360
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22134360-09003002
OpenAlexW2556907862
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

In 1951, at the onset of major decolonization initiatives in the Netherlands Antilles, thousands of residents on Aruba successfully joined in protest to defeat Campo Alegre, a proposed brothel near the Aruban oil-refining city of San Nicolas. This article considers the protest movement within the context of Antillean decolonization and argues that debates over sexual politics played an important role in popularizing an Aruban identity separate from neighboring Curaçao-then seat of the government of the Netherlands Antilles and site of the first Campo Alegre brothel. Through analysis of Aruban archival sources, this article examines how the protest movement exploited decolonization policy while also drawing on the rhetoric of leading local political parties who claimed racial and cultural superiority to Curaçao

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Decolonization · Identity politics · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Soul · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Legal and cultural studies analysis · Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies

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