{"product_id":"the-dominican-racial-imaginary-surveying-the-landscape-of-race-and-nation-in-hispaniola-paperback-softback-9780813584478","title":"The Dominican Racial Imaginary; Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813584478","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Dominican Racial Imaginary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSurveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMilagros Ricourt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813584478\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 November 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 ma\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.313 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A necessary book to rethink Dominican racial identities. Ricourt challenges the hegemonic national imaginary and brings forward alternative discourses and practices highlighting the presence of Dominican Black identities and culture.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - José Itzigsohn (professor of sociology, Brown University) \u003cdiv\u003e\"By reconsidering Dominican Vodou as the living legacy of Indigenous-Black liberation projects, Ricourt manages to make sense of how Dominican history and culture create and sustain both black 'denial' and black 'existence.' I cannot emphasize enough how powerful, radical, and important an argument this is.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Ginetta E. B. Candelario (sociology and Latin American \u0026amp; Latino studies, Smith College) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Ricourt challenges the long-held idea of black denial in the Dominican Republic by highlighting examples from Afro-Dominican religion and other cultural practices where the African past is present. This book continues to move us forward in the ways race and blackness are discussed in the Dominican Republic.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Kimberly Eison Simmons (Anthropology and African American Studies, University of South Carolina) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A much-needed intervention in the historiography of Dominican racial and national identity.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Hispanic American Historical Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHonorable mention, 2017 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history? \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSeeking answers, Milagros Ricourt uncovers a complex and often contradictory Dominican racial imaginary. Observing how Dominicans have traditionally identified in opposition to their neighbors on the island of Hispaniola-Haitians of African descent-she finds that the Dominican Republic’s social elite has long propagated a national creation myth that conceives of the Dominican as a perfect hybrid of native islanders and Spanish settlers. Yet as she pores through rare historical documents, interviews contemporary Dominicans, and recalls her own childhood memories of life on the island, Ricourt encounters persistent challenges to this myth. Through fieldwork at the Dominican-Haitian border, she gives a firsthand look at how Dominicans are resisting the official account of their national identity and instead embracing the African influence that has always been part of their cultural heritage.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBuilding on the work of theorists ranging from Edward Said to \u0026amp;Eacute;douard Glissant, this book expands our understanding of how national and racial imaginaries develop, why they persist, and how they might be subverted. As it confronts Hispaniola’s dark legacies of slavery and colonial oppression, \u003ci\u003eThe Dominican Racial Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e also delivers an inspiring message on how multicultural communities might cooperate to disrupt the enduring power of white supremacy. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 2  Border at the Crossroad\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 3 The Creolization of Race\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 4 Cimarrones: The Seed of Subversion\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 5 Criollismo Religioso\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 6 Race, Identity, and Nation\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563702743320,"sku":"9780813584478","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-dominican-racial-imaginary-surveying-the-landscape-of-race-and-nation-in-hispaniola-paperback-softback-9780813584478","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}