Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles Reyes-Santos Signe

Description: About this product Pre-owned book in very good condition. Signed by Author. Please see the photos of the book to see its condition.Product InformationBeset by the forces of European colonialism, US imperialism, and neoliberalism, the people of the Antilles have had good reasons to band together politically and economically, yet not all Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans have heeded the calls for collective action. So what has determined whether Antillean solidarity movements fail or succeed? In this comprehensive new study, Alaí Reyes-Santos argues that the crucial factor has been the extent to which Dominicans, Haitians, and Puerto Ricans imagine each other as kin. Our Caribbean Kin considers three key moments in the region?s history: the nineteenth century, when the antillanismo movement sought to throw off the yoke of colonial occupation; the 1930s, at the height of the region?s struggles with US imperialism; and the past thirty years, as neoliberal economic and social policies have encroached upon the islands. At each moment, the book demonstrates, specific tropes of brotherhood, marriage, and lineage have been mobilized to construct political kinship among Antilleans, while racist and xenophobic discourses have made it difficult for them to imagine themselves as part of one big family. Recognizing the wide array of contexts in which Antilleans learn to affirm or deny kinship, Reyes-Santos draws from a vast archive of media, including everything from canonical novels to political tracts, historical newspapers to online forums, sociological texts to local jokes. Along the way, she uncovers the conflicts, secrets, and internal hierarchies that characterize kin relations among Antilleans, but she also discovers how they have used notions of kinship to create cohesion across differences.Product IdentifiersPublisher - Rutgers University PressISBN-10 - 0813572002ISBN-13 - 9780813572000eBay Product ID (ePID) - 208696336Product Key FeaturesAuthor - Alaí Reyes-SantosPublication Name - Our Caribbean Kin : Race and Nation in the Neoliberal AntillesFormat - PaperbackLanguage - EnglishPublication Year - 2015Series - Critical Caribbean StudiesType - TextbookNumber of Pages - 244 PagesDimensionsItem Length - 9inItem Height - 0.7inItem Width - 6inItem Weight - 12.3 OzAdditional Product FeaturesLc Classification Number - F1628Grade from - College FreshmanGrade to - College Graduate BeginnerReviewsAla Reyes-Santos's elegant work unites vernacular and elite voices to discuss nationalist thought in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Her insights help us claim our intellectual traditions in contemporary struggles for justice., With breadth, depth, originality, and intellectual acumen, Reyes-Santos builds on her conceptualization of transcolonial and transnational kinship through a number of social and cultural examples to arrive at a more diversified approach in literary and cultural studies., Alaí Reyes-Santos's elegant work unites vernacular and elite voices to discuss nationalist thought in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Her insights help us claim our intellectual traditions in contemporary struggles for justice.Table of ContentContents Preface Introduction: Our Caribbean Kin 1 The Emancipated Sons: Nineteenth-Century Transcolonial Kinship 2 Narratives in the Antilles 3 Wife, Food, and a Bed of His Own: Marriage, Family, and Nationalist Kinship in the 1930s 4 Like Family: (Un)recognized Siblings and the Haitian-Dominican Family 5 Family Secrets: Brotherhood, Passing, and the Dominican-Puerto Rican Family Coda: On Kinship and Solidarity Notes Bibliography IndexCopyright Date - 2015Target Audience - College AudienceTopic - Ethnic Studies / General, Developing & Emerging Countries, Caribbean & West Indies / GeneralLccn - 2014-040077Dewey Decimal - 305.8009729Dewey Edition - 23Genre - History, Social Science

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