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The Decline of the White Idiosyncratic: Racialization and Otherness in Costa Rica
Lozano Long Conference (Austin, Texas)
2009
DOI: 10.17077/ca25-egqi
Abstract
This paper employs comparative historical analysis to trace the development of shifting notions of otherness and changes in the racialization of Nicas and Afro-Costa Ricans over time. I find that both Afro-Costarrican and Nicaraguan minority groups have been central to the national identity, albeit in distinct ways. Racialized comparisons between “dark-skinned” Nicaraguans and “white” Costa Ricans, has created a third way in the Costa Rican context, where traditionally mestizo Nicaraguan immigrants become darkened or “blackened” and Afro-Costa Ricans are simultaneously privileged and disadvantaged as localized and preferred others.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Decline of the White Idiosyncratic: Racialization and Otherness in Costa Rica
- Creators
- Erica Townsend-Bell - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Conference
- Lozano Long Conference (Austin, Texas)
- DOI
- 10.17077/ca25-egqi
- Number of pages
- 26 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009 Erica Townsend-Bell
- Comment
- This is a draft. Please do not cite without the author’s permission.
- Language
- English
- Date copyrighted
- 2009
- Date presented
- 02/2009
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983557488202771
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