Becoming Creole

Nature and Race in Belize
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8135-9698-3
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 353 g

Reihe: Critical Caribbean Studies

Becoming Creole 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 home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples’ 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Melissa A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Becoming Creole
- 2 Hewers of Wood: Histories of Nature, Race and Becoming
- 3 Bush: Racing the More than Human
- 4 Living in a Powerful World
- 5 Entangling the More than Human: Becoming Creole
- 6 Wildlife Conservation, Nature Tourism and Creole Becomings
- 7 Transnational Becomings: From Deer Sausage to Tilapia
- 8 Conclusion: Livity and (Human) Being 
- Appendix/Glossary: Belizean Kriol Words and the More than Human??
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa A. Johnson is a professor of anthropology at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.