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Unmastering the script : education, critical race theory, and the struggle to reconcile the Haitian other in Dominican identity
- Title
- Unmastering the script : education, critical race theory, and the struggle to reconcile the Haitian other in Dominican identity / Sheridan Wigginton and Richard T. Middleton IV.
- Author
- Wigginton, Sheridan
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
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- Additional Authors
- Middleton, Richard T., IV, 1974-
- Description
- 113 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- ""Unmastering the Script: The Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity" examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the culturally entrenched pejorative image of the Haitian Other in Dominican society. The authors analyze how social science textbooks and historical biographies intended for young Dominicans reflect an increasing shift toward a clear and public inclusion of blackness in Dominican identity that serves to renegotiate the country's long-standing "anti-black" racial master script. This book argues that although many of the attempts at this inclusion reflect a lessening of "black denial," when considered as a whole, the materials often struggle to find a consistent and coherent narrative for the place of blackness within Dominican identity, particularly as blackness continues to be meaningfully related to the otherness of Haitian racial identity"--
- Alternative Title
- Education, critical race theory, and the struggle to reconcile the Haitian other in Dominican identity
- Subject
- Black people > Race identity > Dominican Republic
- Dominicans (Dominican Republic) > Ethnic identity
- Haitians > Dominican Republic > Ethnic identity
- National characteristics, Haitian > Foreign public opinion, Dominican
- Textbook bias > Dominican Republic
- National characteristics, Dominican
- Curriculum change > Dominican Republic
- Ethnicity > Dominican Republic
- Blacks > Race identity
- Curriculum change
- Ethnicity
- Race relations
- Textbook bias
- Dominican Republic > Race relations
- Dominican Republic
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-106) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Books, bias, and blackness : how the Haitian other helps tell the story of Dominican history and identity -- La Trinitaria : the elevation of whiteness and normalization of a pigmentocracy in Dominican society -- Truth and Trujillo : a critical approach to studying the Trujillo dictatorship -- The "masters" of the script : Joaquin Balaguer, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, and the anti-Haitian nation -- Dominican national identity : social science textbooks and the boundaries of blackness -- Color, classrooms, and the Haitian other.
- Call Number
- Sc E 20-72
- ISBN
- 9780817320317
- 0817320318
- LCCN
- 2019001161
- OCLC
- 1079847732
- Author
- Wigginton, Sheridan, author.
- Title
- Unmastering the script : education, critical race theory, and the struggle to reconcile the Haitian other in Dominican identity / Sheridan Wigginton and Richard T. Middleton IV.
- Publisher
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-106) and index.
- Added Author
- Middleton, Richard T., IV, 1974- author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 20-72