Black Behind the Ears Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

Name: Black Behind the Ears Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
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ISBN: 9780822340379

ISBN-10: 0822340372

ISBN-13: 9780822340379

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ginetta E. B. Candelario

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"Black behind the Ears" is an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. For much of the Dominican Republic's history, the national body has been defined as "not black," even as black ancestry has been grudgingly acknowledged. Rejecting simplistic explanations, Ginetta E. B. Candelario suggests that it is not a desire for whiteness that guides Dominican identity discourses and displays. Instead, it is an ideal norm of what it means to be both indigenous to the Republic ("indios") and "Hispanic." Both indigeneity and Hispanicity have operated as vehicles for asserting Dominican sovereignty in the context…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



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Acknowledgments


Introduction. "We Declare That We Are Indians": Dominican Identity Displays and Discourses in Travel Writing, Museums, Beauty Shops, and Bodies



"It Is Said That Haiti Is Getting Blacker and Blacker": Traveling Narratives of Dominican Identity



"The Africans Have No [Public] History": The Museo del Hombre Dominicano and Indigenous Displays of Dominican Identity



"I Could Go the African American Route": Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C.



"They Are Taken into Account for Their Opinions": Making Community and Displaying Identity at a Dominican Beauty Shop in New York City



"Black Women Are Confusing, but the Hair Lets You Know": Perceiving the Boundaries of Dominicanidad


Conclusion. "Black behind the Ears, and Up Front, Too": Ideological Code Switching and Ambiguity in Dominican Identities


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Index