Unmastering the Script - Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity (Wigginton Sheridan)(Pevná vazba)

Analyzes textbooks in the Dominican Republic for evidence of reproducing Haitian Otherness Unmastering the Script: Education, Critical Race Theory, and 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. Wigginton and Middleton 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 antiblack racial master script. The authors argue that although many of the attempts at this inclusion reflect a lessening of "black denial," when
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