Category: Amanda Minks
Event Start:
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 5:30pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
Tuesday April 20th, 5:30 pm in 701C Dodge Hall
Amanda Minks
Postcolonial Play: Socializing Race and Language on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
This talk examines the endurance of colonial legacies of race and language in the socializing activities of Miskitu children on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Along with institutional contexts, informal play and performance are key sites for socializing racialized concepts of persons and languages. The resilience of race as a prominent feature of cultural hierarchies raises questions about celebratory discourses (both popular and academic) of cultural interaction and hybridity, alternately viewed as creolization, transculturation or interculturalism. read more »
