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A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity
Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism
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Sherina Feliciano-Santos
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English
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2021
About this book
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to claim what is commonly thought to be an extinct ethnic category. It explores the historical and interactional challenges involved in claiming membership in, what for many Puerto Ricans, is an impossible affiliation. In focusing on Taíno/Boricua activism, the books aims to identify a critical space from which to analyze and decolonize ethnoracial ideologies of Puerto Ricanness, issues of class and education, Puerto Rican nationalisms and colonialisms, as well as important questions regarding narrative, historical memory, and belonging.
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SHERINA FELICIANO-SANTOS is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
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"Sherina Feliciano-Santos’ ethnography offers us a beautifully written account that models rigorous scholarly analysis and ethical ethnographic practice as she examines controversial and critically important questions of Taino activism and identity claims within broader negotiations of Puerto Rican racial, ethnic and national identity. She reminds us of the generative value of embracing ambiguity, and incongruity and of listening carefully to what people have to say about their lives and their worlds."
— Gina Pérez, author of Citizen, Student, Soldier: Latina/o Youth, JROTC, and the American Dream"Sherina Feliciano-Santos has written a compelling and vital book on the multiplicity of ways of being Puerto Rican Taino—at once rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, highlighting again the value of language-centered work to the concerns of anthropology more broadly, it is also deeply personal, highlighting again the value of doing anthropology that matters."
— Anthony K. Webster, author of Intimate Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo PoetryTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Prologue
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Note on Transcription Conventions
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Introduction
1 - Part 1 Competing Historical Narratives regarding Taíno Extinction
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1 The Stakes of Being Taíno
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2 Historical Discourses and Debates about Puerto Rico’s Indigenous Trajectory
27 - Part 2 The Puerto Rican Nation and Ethnoracial Regimes in Puerto Rico
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3 Jíbaros and Jibaridades, Ambiguities and Possibilities
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4 Impossible Identities
75 - Part 3 Taíno Heritage and Political Mobilization
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5 (Re)Constructing Heritage: Narratives of Linguistic Belonging among Taíno Activists
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6 How Do You See the World as a Taíno? Conceptualizing the Taíno Gaze
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7 Protest, Surveillance, and Ceremony
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Conclusion
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Acknowledgments
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Glossary
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Notes
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References
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Index
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August 5, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9781978808218
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9781978808218
Keywords for this book
Puerto Rican diaspora activism; ethnoracial identity; Language; Nationalism; ethnic identity politics; Caribbean decolonization; narrative and historical memory; Puerto Rican history; Crisis; Social Practice; Education; ethnographic study of Puerto Rico; Taíno heritage; Taíno; Puerto Rican indigeneity; Puerto Rican belonging; indigenous resurgence; Ethnicity; indigenous rights in the Caribbean; Perspectives; Narrative; contested identities; Caribbean Studies; Taíno identity; Hstorical Studies; New York Puerto Rican community; Memory; Thanksgiving; Boricua; Caribbean diaspora; Boricua activism; Identity; cultural heritage reclamation; New York City; colonialism in Puerto Rico; Puerto Rican; decolonizing identity; Belonging; indigenous Puerto Rican politics; Puerto Rican nationalism; indigenous cultural activism; Activism; Puerto Rican class issues; Taíno revival movement; American Indian Heritage Day; Class; Diaspora; Colonialism; Indigeneity
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
