Being La Dominicana – Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo

Being La Dominicana\nby Rachel Afi Quinn\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Rachel Afi Quinn\nTitle: Being La Dominicana\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Gender studies: women and girls\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9780252085802\nISBN-10: 0252085809\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nRachel 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.