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Being la Dominicana : race and identity in the visual culture of Santo Domingo /

"This book investigates the ways Dominican visual culture portrays 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, Q...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quinn, Rachel Afi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Colección:Dissident feminisms
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, and the Ethnographic Project
  • The See/Saw of Mixed Race
  • Out from Underneath the Imagery of the "Picturesque"
  • Whose Narrative Eye in the Caribbean?
  • The DR as a Site of Study
  • Small Talk and the Big Picture
  • Ay/I/Eye
  • 1 Sites of Identity: Facebook, Murals, and Vernacular Images
  • "Maldito Feisbu"
  • Raisa and Ingrid: Social Networks as Sites of Identity
  • Sites of Resistance
  • Rewriting Master Narratives
  • Everybody's Protest Mural
  • Off the Wall
  • Photographic Resistance
  • Paloma: La Calle Será la Calle
  • 2 Me Quedo con la Greña: Dominican Women's Identities and Ambiguities
  • Fluctuations in Racial Meaning
  • To Be Black or Latina?
  • Marked on the Body
  • Michelle and Dulcina: Ambiguity and Alienation
  • "Mi Negra"
  • Navigating a Transnational World
  • Michelle: "Negra Caribeña Soy"
  • 3 Whiteness, Transformative Bodies, and the Queer Dominicanidad of Rita Indiana
  • "La Hora de Volvé"
  • Ritaindianístico Pastiche
  • The Privilege of Being a Transformista
  • Queerness and Whiteness in the Dominican Imaginary
  • "El juidero" as Masculinity Deployed
  • Rita Indiana's Brand
  • Racial Vacillations and the Epistemic Knowledge of Mixed Race
  • 4 A Thorn in Her Foot: The Discomfort of Racism and the Ethnographic Moment
  • La Plaza and El Mall
  • Patricia: Dominican German Feminism
  • Who Is Afrodominicana?
  • Yessica y Ambar: Different Razas
  • 5 The Camera Obscura: Teatro Maleducadas' Production of La Casa de Bernarda Alba
  • A Looking-Glass World
  • Other Worlds Are Possible
  • Seeing Gender, Seeing Race
  • Whiteness as Metaphor
  • The Wrath of Bernarda
  • Seeing and Policing Bodies
  • 6 Feminist Rage and the Right to Life for Women in the Dominican Republic.
  • Fictions of Identity in Trópico de Sangre
  • Queering Minerva
  • Color and Its Consequences
  • Albania and Inez: "Niña No Esposa"
  • Girlhood Interrupted
  • #TodosSomosEmely
  • The Art of Rage
  • Curiouser and Curiouser
  • Notes
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Sites of Identity
  • Chapter 2. Me Quedo con la Greña
  • Chapter 3. Whiteness, Transformative Bodies, and the Queer Dominicanidad of Rita Indiana
  • Chapter 4. A Thorn in Her Foot
  • Chapter 5. The Camera Obscura
  • Chapter 6. Feminist Rage and the Right to Life for Women in the Dominican Republic
  • Works Cited
  • Index.