The borders of Dominicanidad : race, nation, and archives of contradiction / Lorgia García-Peña.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García Peña, Lorgia, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dominican Americans--Race identity.

Dominican Americans.

Black people--Race identity--Dominican Republic.

Black people.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

International relations.

History.

Relations.

Black people--Race identity.

United States.

Social conditions.

Race in mass media.

Dominican Republic--Relations--Haiti.

Dominican Republic.

Haiti--Relations--Dominican Republic.

Haiti.

United States--Foreign relations--Dominican Republic--History.

Dominican Republic--Foreign relations--United States--History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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. Garcia-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 US occupation between 1916 and 1924; the massacre of more than 20,000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937; and the 1010 earthquake in Haiti. Gareia-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. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Galindo virgins : violence and repetition in the archive of Dominicanidad

Of bandits and wenches : the US occupation (1916-1924) and the criminalization of Dominican Blackness

Speaking in silences : literary interruptions and the massacre of 1937

Rayano consciousness : remapping the Haiti-DR border after the earthquake of 2010

Writing from El Nié : exile and the poetics of Dominicanidad Ausente

Postscript: Anti-Haitianism and the global war on Blackness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: García-Peña, Lorgia, 1978- author. Borders of Dominicanidad.

ISBN:

9780822362470

0822362473

9780822362623

0822362627

OCLC:

936344737