Being La Dominicana

Rachel Afi Quinn is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston.

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, and the Ethnographic Project1. Sites of Identity: Facebook, Murals, and Vernacular Images2. Me Quedo con la Greña: Dominican Women's Identities and Ambiguities3. Whiteness, Transformative Bodies, and the Queer Dominicanidad of Rita Indiana4. A Thorn in Her Foot: The Discomfort of Racism and the Ethnographic Moment5. The Camera Obscura: Teatro Colectivo Las Maleducadas' Production of La Casa de Bernarda Alba6. Feminist Rage and the Right to Life for Women in the Dominican RepublicNotesWorks CitedIndexBack cover

"Rachel Afi Quinn's first monograph is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of how Dominican women in Santo Domingo theorize mixed-raceness and fashion themselves in response to the transnational flow of images." --Transforming Anthropology"A unique and timely examination of the significance and cultural strategies of Dominican women in the contemporary era marked by neoliberal economic structures, (post) colonial geopolitical arrangements, heteropatriarchal beauty standards, and global anti-blackness. It is an important work of feminist ethnography."--Nicole Fleetwood, author of On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination