Unmastering the script : education, critical race theory, and the struggle to reconcile the Haitian other in Dominican identity / Sheridan Wigginton and Richard Middleton IV.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wigginton, Sheridan, author.

Middleton, Richard T., IV, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Race identity--Dominican Republic.

Black people.

Dominicans (Dominican Republic)--Ethnic identity.

Dominicans (Dominican Republic).

Haitians--Dominican Republic--Ethnic identity.

Haitians.

National characteristics, Haitian--Foreign public opinion, Dominican.

National characteristics, Haitian.

Textbook bias--Dominican Republic.

Textbook bias.

National characteristics, Dominican.

Curriculum change--Dominican Republic.

Curriculum change.

Ethnicity--Dominican Republic.

Ethnicity.

Dominican Republic--Race relations.

Dominican Republic.

Critical race theory--Dominican Republic.

Critical race theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 pages)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]

Summary:

""Unmastering the Script: The Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity" examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the Haitian Other in Dominican society. The authors analyze how social science textbooks and historical biographies intended for young Dominicans reflect an increasing shift toward a clear and public inclusion of blackness in Dominican identity that serves to renegotiate the country's long-standing "anti-black" racial master script. This book argues that although many of the attempts at this inclusion reflect a lessening of "black denial," when considered as a whole, the materials often struggle to find a consistent and coherent narrative for the place of blackness within Dominican identity, particularly as blackness continues to be meaningfully related to the otherness of Haitian racial identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Books, bias, and blackness : how the Haitian other helps tell the story of Dominican history and identity

La Trinitaria : the elevation of whiteness and normalization of a pigmentocracy in Dominican society

Truth and Trujillo : a critical approach to studying the Trujillo dictatorship

The "masters" of the script : Joaquin Balaguer, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, and the anti-Haitian nation

Dominican national identity : social science textbooks and the boundaries of blackness

Color, classrooms, and the Haitian other.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-9245-9