Dominican Racial Imaginary

MILAGROS RICOURT is a professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican studies at Lehman College, the City University of New York. She is the author of Women in Latin America and Dominicans in New York City: Power from the Margins, and coauthor of Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in a New York City Neighborhood.

• PrefaceChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2  Border at the CrossroadChapter 3 The Creolization of RaceChapter 4 Cimarrones: The Seed of SubversionChapter 5 Criollismo ReligiosoChapter 6 Race, Identity, and NationNotesBibliographyIndex

"A necessary book to rethink Dominican racial identities. Ricourt challenges the hegemonic national imaginary and brings forward alternative discourses and practices highlighting the presence of Dominican Black identities and culture." - José Itzigsohn (professor of sociology, Brown University) "By reconsidering Dominican Vodou as the living legacy of Indigenous-Black liberation projects, Ricourt manages to make sense of how Dominican history and culture create and sustain both black 'denial' and black 'existence.' I cannot emphasize enough how powerful, radical, and important an argument this is." - Ginetta E. B. Candelario (sociology and Latin American & Latino studies, Smith College) "Ricourt challenges the long-held idea of black denial in the Dominican Republic by highlighting examples from Afro-Dominican religion and other cultural practices where the African past is present. This book continues to move us forward in the ways race and blackness are discussed in the Dominican Republic." - Kimberly Eison Simmons (Anthropology and African American Studies, University of South Carolina) "A much-needed intervention in the historiography of Dominican racial and national identity." (Hispanic American Historical Review)