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Informationen zum Autor Ginetta E. B. Candelario is Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies at Smith College. Klappentext "Ginetta E. B. Candelario's "Black behind the Ears" argues compellingly that any serious effort to understand Dominican ideas and practices of race in the ancestral homeland as well as in the diaspora requires a large conceptual framework, a triangular geography of knowledge, and a cultural history formed by Dominican nation-building projects, the difficult plight of the Haitian Republic in the midst of a negrophobic world, the impact of U.S. racial thought, and the Latin American glorification of the Hispanic heritage. Candelario's book remarkably dares to bring apparently disparate discursive sites to interact convincingly and engagingly in her analysis. The author renders facile readings of the Dominican chapter of the black experience in the Americas as exceptional or pathological simply unsustainable. She shows instead that it invites White Americans, African Americans, and other Latinos to revisit long-held assumptions about racial categories, ethnic identity, nationality, and the ideologies behind taking the 'visible' for 'real' in matters of race."--Silvio Torres-Saillant, coauthor of "The Dominican Americans" Zusammenfassung An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. "We Declare That We Are Indians": Dominican Identity Displays and Discourses in Travel Writing, Museums, Beauty Shops, and Bodies 1 1. "It Is Said That Haiti Is Getting Blacker and Blacker": Traveling Narratives of Dominican Identity 35 2. "The Africans have No [Public] History": The Museo del Hombre Dominicano and Indigenous Displays of Dominican Identity 83 3. "I Could Go the African American Route": Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. 129 4. "They Are Taken into Account for Their Opinions": Making Community and Displaying Identity at a Dominican Beauty Shop in New York City 177 5. "Black Women are Confusing, but the Hair Lets You Know": Perceiving the Boundaries of Dominicanidad 223 Conclusion: "Black Behind the Ears, and Up Front, Too": Ideological Code Switching and Ambiguity in Dominican Identities 256 Notes 265 References 297 Index 323...
