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Who were the leaders of colonial and Post colonial Thought?
Aime cesaire and Frantz Fanon
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What does Pidgin-nigger mean and who's term is that?
Fanon's. Notion that blacks have to be "good niggers" grinning and being subservient to whites.
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Many women of color are in the quest of what?
White men
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What do many black women dissociate themselves with?
being black.
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What's the difference between a Negress and a Mulatto?
- Negress wants to turn white
- mulatto wants to turn white and avoid slipping back to being black.
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What is racial ambiguity?
Not understanding that blacks are blacks. Whites saying one is "extremely brown" to disassociate blackness.
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What is Decolonization?
Substitution of one "species" of mankind by another or "the last shall be first"
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What did Boukman due in regards of the Haitian revolution?
Utilized vodou as a secret way to spread messages among maroons, freed persons of color, and slaves.
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Who was Touissaint L'overture?
- Former slave turned land owner.
- Led slave forces to series of victories over france, spain and england.
- Emancipated laves and gained citizenship for slaves in France
- Betrayed by France and imprisoned
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what were the patterns of Post colonialism fallout in Haiti?
- Vodou - elites and mulattoes distanced themselves from it and took positions of power and spoke only french
- Debt
- Natural disasters
- Political instability
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What did political instabilities in Haiti lead to?
The dictatorships of Papa Doc and Baby Doc. Military assuming power to support elites.
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Who was twice colonized?
The Dominican Republic
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Independence from haiti marked the date that anti-Haitianism took deep root in the ________ psyche
Dominican
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The War of Restoration was Spain's attemp to reclaim the old empire in ___________
the Caribbean.
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What two countries remained in Spain's grip until 1898?
Puerto Rico and Cuba
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The Caudillo Rule and Foreign Debt was teh result of:
one strong man after another taking power which added to the country's national debt often through kleptocracy.
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What is Hispanocentric identity?
Overlooked or downplayed African contributions to the ethnic composition by only accepting European (spanish) contributions.
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What is Whitening (blanqueamiento)?
- Process of Eugenics to improve the race.
- Inviting racially superior immigrants to transfer "good blood" into society.
- Dominican elites = whites of the land.
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What caused US Intervention in Haiti?
Civil Unrest and first world war concerns.
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Who was Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina?
- American trained and Anti Haitian to command US police force
- Light skinned mulatto, powdered face, personal appearance.
- declared martial law
- remained in power until assasinated
- Embodied dominican values in leadership styles
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What does Dominicanidad mean?
what it means to be Dominican
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What are Indo-hispanic origins?
fictional indian merge with white dominance to help explain diverse skin colors in population
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what is merengue
Established musical style in Trujillos home province. used it to gain support of non-haitians
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What was considered Trujillo's extreme act of Anti-Hatianism
Genocide campaign to murder haitians. Got away with it by bribe.
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What is internalized racism?
- Social force that causes people to agree with their own oppression on a conscious or unconscious level.
- Accepting dominant society's racial views.
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Who was Enriquello?
- fictional character that embodied domincan attributes:
- Catholic
- moral values consistent with ideals.
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what does Gibao (jibao) mean?
light skinned
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A general description of the country's racial mixture is called?
muallato
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What is Trigueno?
wheat colored, light borwn. Black person with kinky hair.
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Indio Lavado =
washed indian. person who is light brown
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indio Oscuro =
dark indian. person with very dark skin color. near black.
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Indio Quemado =
Burn indian. black with black hair and eye color
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Moreno =
Brown, brunette, ebony colored. black person
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Morejon=
black person considered ugly or ordinary
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Turco =
Turk or middle eastern; syrian
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to look indigenous one must have _______ hair
straight
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Good hair is _______
straight or straightened
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bad hair is
curly, kinky, Haitian.
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who coined the Somatic norm image?
harry Hoetink
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""the complex of physical (somatic) characteristics that are accepted by a group as its norm and ideal. Norm, because it is used to measure aesthetic appreciation; ideal, becasue usually no individual every in fact embodies the somatic norm image of this group" refers to the
somatic norm image
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Of all Latino groups, which group has proven to most likely reside in predominantly African American communities?
Dominicans
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Maroon culture symbolized the struggle for freedom and independence in
Jamaica
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What was ironic about Maroon history in Jamiaca/
to keep freedom, they had to return fugitive slaves for bounty.
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The turbulent past of what country caused many to turn their backs and accept the colonial version of history?
Jamaica.
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New economics in Jamaica included:
accommodations, personal safety, and trips to the zoo (black people)
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Fear that jamaica would socialize like cuba prompted socioeconomic actions by
USA
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What does Jamaica rely on to make minimum payments from debt
tourism and limited exports to united kingdom
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