Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican
women and how women represent themselves in their own creative
endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the
dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of
women in Santo Domingo, Quinn reveals the way racial ambiguity and
color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and
subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of
context and interviews with young Dominican women to offer rare
insights into a Caribbean society in which the tourist industry and
popular media reward, and rely upon, the ability of Dominican women
to transform themselves to perform gender, race, and class.
Engaging and astute, Being La Dominicana reveals the little-studied
world of today's young Dominican women and what their personal
stories and transnational experiences can tell us about the larger
neoliberal world.
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