Black and indigenous : Garifuna activism and consumer culture in Honduras / Mark Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Mark, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Honduras--Ethnic identity.

Garifuna (Caribbean people).

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Honduras--Social conditions.

Race relations.

Social conditions.

Ethnicity.

Honduras--Race relations.

Honduras.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]

Summary:

Garifuna live in Central America, primarily Honduras, and the United States. Identified as Black by others and by themselves, they also claim indigenous status and rights in Latin America. Examining this set of paradoxes, Mark Anderson shows how, on the one hand, Garifuna embrace discourses of tradition, roots, and a paradigm of ethnic political struggle. On the other hand, Garifuna often affirm blackness through assertions of African roots and affiliations with Blacks elsewhere, drawing particularly on popular images of U.S. blackness embodied by hip-hop music and culture.

Black and Indigenous explores the politics of race and culture among Garifuna in Honduras as a window into the active relations among multiculturalism, consumption, and neoliberalism in the Americas. Based on ethnographic work, Anderson questions perspectives that view indigeneity and blackness, nativist attachmets and diasporic affiliations, as mutually exclusive paradigms of representation, being, and belonging. Indigeneity and blackness, he concludes, operate as unstable, often ambivalent, and sometimes overlapping modes through which people both represent themselves and negotiate oppression.

Contents:

Race, modernity, and tradition in a Garifuna community

From Moreno to Negro: Garifuna and the Honduran nation, 1920s to 1960s

Black indigenism: the making of ethnic politics and state multiculturalism

Paradoxes of participation: Garifuna activism in the multicultural era

This is the black power we wear: black America and the fashioning of young Garifuna men

Political economies of difference: indigeneity, land, and culture in Sambo Creek.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816661015

0816661014

9780816661022

0816661022

OCLC:

351313267