{"id":22456,"date":"2012-04-14T01:16:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T01:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22456"},"modified":"2012-04-14T01:16:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T01:16:19","slug":"%e2%80%9cour-ancestors-came-from-many-bloods%e2%80%9d-gendered-narrations-of-a-hybrid-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22456","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur Ancestors came from many Bloods\u201d. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1163\/176830805774719728\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOur Ancestors came from many Bloods\u201d. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booksandjournals.brillonline.com\/content\/17683084\" target=\"_blank\">Lusotopie<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/booksandjournals.brillonline.com\/content\/17683084\/12\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 12, Issue 1<\/a> (2005)<br \/>\npages 217-232<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1163\/176830805774719728\" target=\"_blank\">10.1163\/176830805774719728<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:irodrigues@umassd.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Isabel P.B. F\u00eao Rodrigues<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Narratives of mixed ancestry in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Verde\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Verde<\/a> use gender as common denominator in the weaving of a Creole nation. These narratives may hide tensions, conflicts, and adversities, but they also contain elements of fusion and national cohesion. They are and have been gendered narratives, partial and selective of the elements of fusion substantiating and sustaining a Cape Verdean identity vis-\u00e0-vis the multiple symbolic and material challenges faced by this young post-colonial nation-state. In them, Cape Verde is portrayed as an exceptional African case with boundaries carved by the ocean, free from ethnic conflict, and without a pre-colonial past through which to filter present realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur Ancestors came from many Bloods\u201d. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation Lusotopie Volume 12, Issue 1 (2005) pages 217-232 DOI: 10.1163\/176830805774719728 Isabel P.B. F\u00eao Rodrigues, Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Narratives of mixed ancestry in Cape Verde use gender as common denominator in the weaving of a Creole nation. These narratives may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,1196,8],"tags":[8288,10408,10407,10406],"class_list":["post-22456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-cape-verde","tag-isabel-feo-rodrigues","tag-isabel-p-b-feo-rodrigues","tag-lusotopie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}