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Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic

Kimberly Eison Simmons

出版	University Press of Florida, 2009
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / General
ISBN	08130337489780813033747
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XewMAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

In Latin America and the Caribbean, racial issues are extremely complex and fluid, particularly the nature of 'blackness.' What it means to be called black is still very different for an African American living in the United States than it is for an individual in the Dominican Republic with an African ancestry. Racial categories were far from concrete as the Dominican populace grew, altered, and solidified around the present notions of identity. Kimberly Simmons explores the fascinating socio-cultural shifts in Dominicans' racial categories, concluding that Dominicans are slowly embracing blackness and ideas of African ancestry. Simmons also examines the movement of individuals between the Dominican Republic and the United States, where traditional notions of indio are challenged, debated, and called into question. How and why Dominicans define their racial identities reveal shifting coalitions between Caribbean peoples and African Americans, and proves intrinsic to understanding identities in the African diaspora.