Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo (Dissident Feminisms)

$19.50 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Rachel Afi Quinn (Author)Rachel Afi Quinn investigates the ways Dominican visual culture portrays 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 how racial ambiguity and color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of context and interviews…