Shifting Negotiations of Identity in a Dominican American Community
In: Latino studies, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 157-181
ISSN: 1476-3443
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In: Latino studies, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 157-181
ISSN: 1476-3443
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 677-708
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
The majority of Dominicans have sub-Saharan African ancestry,1 which would make them "black" by historical United States 'one-drop' rules. Second generation Dominican high school students in Providence, Rhode Island do not identity their race in terms of black or white, but rather in terms of ethnolinguistic identity, as Dominican/Spanish/Hispanic. The distinctiveness of Dominican-American understandings of race is highlighted by comparing them with those of non-Hispanic, African descent second generation immigrants and with historical Dominican notions of social identity. Dominican second generation resistance to phenotype-racialization as black or white makes visible ethnic/racial formation processes that are often veiled, particularly in the construction of the category African-American. This resistance to black/white racialization suggests the transformative effects that post-1965 immigrants and their descendants are having on United States ethnic/racial categories.
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 3(135, S. 677-708
ISSN: 0197-9183
In: The new Americans
In: Journal of family violence, Band 31, Heft 8, S. 995-998
ISSN: 1573-2851
In: Journal of multicultural discourses, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 213-233
ISSN: 1747-6615
In: Journal of family violence, Band 27, Heft 5, S. 465-476
ISSN: 1573-2851
In: Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology : special issue, S. 1-11
ISSN: 1748-3115
In: Journal of LGBT youth: an international quarterly devoted to research, policy, theory, and practice, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 217-245
ISSN: 1936-1661
In: Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology : special issue, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 90-99
ISSN: 1748-3115