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Black behind the ears : dominican racial identity from museums to beauty shops / Ginetta. E. B. Candelario

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Durham, Estados Unidos de América : Duke University Press, 2007Description: 323 p. : il., fotografíasSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89607293 C216b
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Figures and tables, ix.-- Acknowledments, xi.-- Introduction : We declare that we are Indians : Dominican identity displays and discourses in travel writing, museums, beauty shops, and bodies, 1.-- It is said that Haiti is getting blacker and blacker : traveling narratives of Dominican identity, 35.-- The Africans have no [public] history : the Museo del Hombre Dominicano and indigenous displays of Dominican identity, 83.-- I could go the African American route : Dominicans in the black mosaic of Washington, D.C., 129.-- They are taken into account for their opinions : making community and displaying identity at a Dominican beauty shop in New York City, 177.-- Black women are confusing, but the hair lets you know : perceiving the boundaries of Dominicanidad, 223.-- Conclusion : Black behind the ears, and up front, too : ideological code switching and ambiguity in Dominican identities, 256.-- Notes, 265.-- References, 297.-- Index, 323.
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Figures and tables, ix.-- Acknowledments, xi.-- Introduction : We declare that we are Indians : Dominican identity displays and discourses in travel writing, museums, beauty shops, and bodies, 1.-- It is said that Haiti is getting blacker and blacker : traveling narratives of Dominican identity, 35.-- The Africans have no [public] history : the Museo del Hombre Dominicano and indigenous displays of Dominican identity, 83.-- I could go the African American route : Dominicans in the black mosaic of Washington, D.C., 129.-- They are taken into account for their opinions : making community and displaying identity at a Dominican beauty shop in New York City, 177.-- Black women are confusing, but the hair lets you know : perceiving the boundaries of Dominicanidad, 223.-- Conclusion : Black behind the ears, and up front, too : ideological code switching and ambiguity in Dominican identities, 256.-- Notes, 265.-- References, 297.-- Index, 323.

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