Being la Dominicana Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo.

Being la Dominicana Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quinn, Rachel Afi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Series:Dissident Feminisms Ser.
Subjects:
Feminism > Dominican Republic > History.
Women > Dominican Republic.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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