{"id":36548,"date":"2014-05-29T02:52:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36548"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:40:40","slug":"the-politics-of-race-in-panama-afro-hispanic-and-west-indian-literary-discourses-of-contention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36548","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=WATSO003\" target=\"_blank\">The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\" target=\"_blank\">University Press of Florida<\/a><br \/>\n2014-04-15<br \/>\n200 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\nCloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4986-1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uta-ir.tdl.org\/uta-ir\/handle\/10106\/8453\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sonja Stephenson Watson<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Spanish<br \/>\n<em>University of Texas, Arlington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=WATSO003\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/jackets\/4986.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This volume tells the story of two cultural groups: Afro-Hispanics, whose ancestors came to Panama as African slaves, and West Indians from the English-speaking countries of Jamaica and Barbados who arrived during the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries to build the railroad and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama_Canal\" target=\"_blank\">Panama Canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Afro-Hispanics assimilated after centuries of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\"><em>mestizaje<\/em><\/a> (race mixing) and now identify with their Spanish heritage, West Indians hold to their British Caribbean roots and identify more closely with Africa and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>By examining the writing of black Panamanian authors, Sonja Watson highlights how race is defined, contested, and inscribed in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama\" target=\"_blank\">Panama<\/a>. She discusses the cultural, racial, and national tensions that prevent these two groups from forging a shared Afro-Panamanian identity, ultimately revealing why ethnically diverse Afro-descendant populations continue to struggle to create racial unity in nations across Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention University Press of Florida 2014-04-15 200 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4986-1 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington This volume tells the story of two cultural groups: Afro-Hispanics, whose ancestors came to Panama as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,459,1196,8,17],"tags":[10289,17419,17408,17418,5799],"class_list":["post-36548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-panama","tag-sonja-s-watson","tag-sonja-stephenson-watson","tag-sonja-watson","tag-university-press-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36548","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=36548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51315,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36548\/revisions\/51315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}