Being Black Ain’t So Bad... Dominican Immigrant Women Negotiating Race in Contemporary Italy
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| author | Lorgia García-Peña |
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| contents | Being Black Ain’t So Bad... Dominican Immigrant Women Negotiating Race in Contemporary Italy Lorgia García-Peña Estudios Culturales trans blackness migration colonialism racial identity This article explores questions of racial identity and national belong - ing through the experience of Dominican women immigrant in con - temporary Italy. By means of empirical examination that includes oral interviews of women living in Italy as well as in the Dominican Republic, the author considers the racialization of Dominican identity in relation to Italian national identity. Through the stories of two high- profile Dominican women immigrants in Italy, Denny Méndez (Miss Italy 1996) and Mercedes Frías (Parliament Representative 2006), this article explores how blackness permits Dominicans to be represented within the Italian nation, allowing them to belong, although in an often-conflicting border. This essay facilitates an original transatlantic and multi-disciplinary dialogue that engages discourse analysis of oral interviews as well as various theories on gender, race, ethnicity and migration. Some of the main questions explored in this article are: (1) Why do Dominican women embrace blackness in Italy? (2) How does this new ethnicity, to borrow Stuart Hall’s term, facilitate (trans) migration and dual citizenship for these women? (3) Can they go back as black to the Dominican Republic or must they negotiate a dual yet separate identity?. 2013 artículo científico 0008-6533 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39230911005 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=392 Caribbean Studies application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico) Num.2 Vol.41 |
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| spellingShingle | Being Black Ain’t So Bad... Dominican Immigrant Women Negotiating Race in Contemporary Italy Lorgia García-Peña Estudios Culturales trans blackness migration colonialism racial identity Being Black Ain’t So Bad... Dominican Immigrant Women Negotiating Race in Contemporary Italy Lorgia García-Peña Estudios Culturales trans blackness migration colonialism racial identity This article explores questions of racial identity and national belong - ing through the experience of Dominican women immigrant in con - temporary Italy. By means of empirical examination that includes oral interviews of women living in Italy as well as in the Dominican Republic, the author considers the racialization of Dominican identity in relation to Italian national identity. Through the stories of two high- profile Dominican women immigrants in Italy, Denny Méndez (Miss Italy 1996) and Mercedes Frías (Parliament Representative 2006), this article explores how blackness permits Dominicans to be represented within the Italian nation, allowing them to belong, although in an often-conflicting border. This essay facilitates an original transatlantic and multi-disciplinary dialogue that engages discourse analysis of oral interviews as well as various theories on gender, race, ethnicity and migration. Some of the main questions explored in this article are: (1) Why do Dominican women embrace blackness in Italy? (2) How does this new ethnicity, to borrow Stuart Hall’s term, facilitate (trans) migration and dual citizenship for these women? (3) Can they go back as black to the Dominican Republic or must they negotiate a dual yet separate identity?. 2013 artículo científico 0008-6533 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39230911005 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=392 Caribbean Studies application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico) Num.2 Vol.41 |
| title | Being Black Ain’t So Bad... Dominican Immigrant Women Negotiating Race in Contemporary Italy |
| topic | Estudios Culturales trans blackness migration colonialism racial identity |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39230911005 |