Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

by Kimberly Eison Simmons

Book Overview

"Documents a seismic shift in Dominican identity over the last two decades which the author argues is the result of contact with the U.S.; that Dominicans have moved away from seeing themselves as indio and increasingly self-identify as Black."--Robin Derby, University of California, Los Angeles

In Latin America and the Caribbean, racial issues are extremely complex and fluid, particularly the nature of "blackness." What it means to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813036755
• ISBN13: 9780813036755
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"