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    Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo

    Being La Dominicana by Quinn, Rachel Afi;

    Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo

    Series: Dissident Feminisms; 39;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number First Edition
    • Publisher University of Illinois Press
    • Date of Publication 27 July 2021
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780252085802
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages264 pages
    • Size 229x152x23 mm
    • Weight 426 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 28 black & white photographs
    • 124

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    Long description:

    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    Cover
    Title
    Copyright
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction: Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, and the Ethnographic Project
    1. Sites of Identity: Facebook, Murals, and Vernacular Images
    2. Me Quedo con la Greña: Dominican Women's Identities and Ambiguities
    3. Whiteness, Transformative Bodies, and the Queer Dominicanidad of Rita Indiana
    4. A Thorn in Her Foot: The Discomfort of Racism and the Ethnographic Moment
    5. The Camera Obscura: Teatro Colectivo Las Maleducadas' Production of La Casa de Bernarda Alba
    6. Feminist Rage and the Right to Life for Women in the Dominican Republic
    Notes
    Works Cited
    Index
    Back cover

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