Being La Dominicana

Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo

Being La Dominicana
Rachel Afi Quinn
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h229 x 152mm - 264pg
27 Jul 2021 US
9780252085802
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Dominican women being seen-and seeing themselves-in the media 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 rewards, 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.

Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo
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"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
Rachel Afi Quinn is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Women' s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston.
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ISBN-13: 9780252085802
Published: 27 Jul 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 264

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