{"id":56560,"date":"2018-11-09T03:38:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56560"},"modified":"2018-11-09T03:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T03:39:28","slug":"becoming-creole-nature-and-race-in-belize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56560","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rutgers University Press<\/a>
\n2018-11-01
\n226 pages
\n24 b&w images
\n6 x 9
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8135-9698-3
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-9699-0
\nEPUB ISBN: 978-0-8135-9700-3
\nMobiPocket ISBN: 978-0-8135-9701-0
\nPDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-9702-7<\/p>\n

Melissa A. Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Anthropology
\nSouthwestern University, Georgetown, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Becoming<\/a><\/p>\n

Becoming Creole<\/em> explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and it shows how those relationships are also always embedded in processes of racialization that create blackness, brownness, and whiteness. Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize<\/a> home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole<\/a> peoples\u2019 relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages. She provides a sustained analysis of how processes of racialization are always present in the entanglements between people and the non-human worlds in which they live.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n