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The Dominican Racial Imaginary : Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola by Milagros Ricourt is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Dominican Racial Imaginary : Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola about?
This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history? Seeking answers, Milagros Ricourt uncovers a complex and often contradictory Dominican racial imaginary. Observing how Dominicans have traditionally identified in opposition to their neighbors on the island of Hispaniola—Haitians of African descent—she finds that the Dominican Republic’s social elite has long propagated a national creation myth that conceives of the
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Milagros Ricourt
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813584485
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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