Being La Dominicana
Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:27th Jul '21
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- Hardback£91.00(9780252043819)
Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of women in Santo Domingo, Quinn reveals the way racial ambiguity and color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of context and interviews with young Dominican women to offer rare insights into a Caribbean society in which the tourist industry and popular media reward, and rely upon, the ability of Dominican women to transform themselves to perform gender, race, and class.
Engaging and astute, Being La Dominicana reveals the little-studied world of today's young Dominican women and what their personal stories and transnational experiences can tell us about the larger neoliberal world.
"Rachel Afi Quinn's first monograph is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of how Dominican women in Santo Domingo theorize mixed-raceness and fashion themselves in response to the transnational flow of images." --Transforming Anthropology
"A unique and timely examination of the significance and cultural strategies of Dominican women in the contemporary era marked by neoliberal economic structures, (post) colonial geopolitical arrangements, heteropatriarchal beauty standards, and global anti-blackness. It is an important work of feminist ethnography."--Nicole Fleetwood, author of On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination
ISBN: 9780252085802
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
Weight: 426g
264 pages