Dougla in the twenty-first century : adding to the mix /

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Author / Creator:	Barratt, Sue Ann, author.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Description:	xi, 218 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Caribbean studies series Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Subject:	Dougla (Caribbean people) Dougla (Caribbean people) -- New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12578772

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Other authors / contributors:	Ranjitsingh, Aleah N., author.
ISBN:	9781496833709 1496833708 9781496833693 1496833694 9781496833716 9781496833723 9781496833730 9781496833747
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume, Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh explore the particular meanings of a Dougla identity and examine Dougla maneuverability both at home and in the diaspora. The authors scrutinize the perception of Douglaness over time, contemporary Dougla negotiations of social demands, their expansion of ethnicity as an intersectional identity, and the experiences of Douglas within the diaspora outside the Caribbean. Through an examination of how Douglas experience their claim to multiracialism and how ethnic identity may be enforced or interrupted, the authors firmly situate this analysis in ongoing debates about multiracial identity. Based on interviews with over one hundred Douglas, Barratt and Ranjitsingh explore the multiple subjectivities Douglas express, confirm, challenge, negotiate, and add to prevailing understandings. Contemplating this, Dougla in the Twenty-First Century adds to the global discourse of multiethnic identity and how it impacts living both in the Caribbean, where it is easily recognizable, and in the diaspora, where the Dougla remains a largely unacknowledged designation. This book deliberately expands the conversation beyond the limits of biraciality and the Black/white binary and contributes nuance to current interpretations of the lives of multiracial people by introducing Douglas as they carve out their lives in the Caribbean"--
Other form:	Online version: Barratt, Sue Ann, Dougla in the twenty-first century Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 9781496833716

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: adding to the mix
Defining Dougla in the twenty-first century: from biracial to multiracial
Am I mixed enough? Dougla and the complications of phenotype
Maneuvering mixedness: interpreting Dougla in the Caribbean diaspora
Taking sides: maneuvering belonging
Politics of identification: claiming, naming, and maneuvering group memberships
What nice hair!? Contentious privilege and the embodiment of Dougla mixedness
Dougla fire: hypersexuality and ethnoracial stereotypes
Conclusion: Dougla in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Dougla in the twenty-first century : adding to the mix /

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