Muertos Civiles: Mourning the Casualties of Racism in the Dominican Republic

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dc.citation.firstpage41en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleTransforming Anthropologyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage57en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber28en_US
dc.contributor.authorEstrella, Amarilysen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-05T15:46:59Z
dc.date.available2024-03-05T15:46:59Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractBlack Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Reconoci.do movement often state that denationalization policies in the Dominican Republic have caused their muertes civiles, or civil deaths. Although Reconoci.do’s members organize to fight against their figurative deaths, their struggles are not limited to a fight for legal recognition. They also fight for survival in the context of higher rates of death as a direct result of systemic racism and social exclusion. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, this article explores resistance to the deaths of Black individuals who form part of a large-scale movement against statelessness. I engage Christina Sharpe’s analysis of “wake work” in order to examine “Black people’s ability to everywhere and anywhere … produce in, into, and through the wake an insistence on existing” (2016, 11). I analyze Reconoci.do’s activism as wake work to interpret the movement’s manifestations of resistance to death by racism.en_US
dc.identifier.citationEstrella, A. (2020). Muertos Civiles: Mourning the Casualties of Racism in the Dominican Republic. Transforming Anthropology, 28(1), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12170en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12170en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/115464
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Chicago Pressen_US
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dc.titleMuertos Civiles: Mourning the Casualties of Racism in the Dominican Republicen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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