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Informationen zum Autor Reyes-Santos, Alaí Klappentext What has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study! Alai Reyes-Santos argues that the crucial factor has been the extent to which Dominicans! Haitians! and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin. Our Caribbean Kin considers three key moments in the region's history: the nineteenth century; the 1930s; and the past thirty years. Zusammenfassung What has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study! Alai Reyes-Santos argues that the crucial factor has been the extent to which Dominicans! Haitians! and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin. Our Caribbean Kin considers three key moments in the region's history: the nineteenth century; the 1930s; and the past thirty years. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsPreface Introduction: Our Caribbean Kin 1 The Emancipated Sons: Nineteenth-Century Transcolonial Kinship2 Narratives in the Antilles3 Wife, Food, and a Bed of His Own: Marriage, Family, and Nationalist Kinship in the 1930s4 Like Family: (Un)recognized Siblings and the Haitian-Dominican Family5 Family Secrets: Brotherhood, Passing, and the Dominican–Puerto Rican Family Coda: On Kinship and SolidarityNotesBibliographyIndex
