9780822362623-0822362627-The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

ISBN-13: 9780822362623
ISBN-10: 0822362627
Author: Lorgia García Peña
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822362623
ISBN-10: 0822362627
Author: Lorgia García Peña
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction (ISBN-13: 9780822362623 and ISBN-10: 0822362627), written by authors Lorgia García Peña, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Caribbean & West Indies (Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Caribbean & West Indies books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.43.

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In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, silencing, and exclusionary effects. Centering the role of U.S. imperialism in drawing racial borders between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, she analyzes musical, visual, artistic, and literary representations of foundational moments in the history of the Dominican Republic: the murder of three girls and their father in 1822; the criminalization of Afro-religious practice during the U.S. occupation between 1916 and 1924; the massacre of more than 20,000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937; and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. García-Peña also considers the contemporary emergence of a broader Dominican consciousness among artists and intellectuals that offers alternative perspectives to questions of identity as well as the means to make audible the voices of long-silenced Dominicans.

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