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    6. "Like an alien in we own land": International Tourism , Gender and Identity in Afro-Antillean Panama

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Guerron-Montero,Carla (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Eugene, OR: University of Oregon
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title Details:
    p. 570
    Notes:
    "This dissertation explores the discursive and material practices that Afro-Antilleans in the Archipelago of Bocas del Toro (Panama) employ to craft and assert their identity for tourist consumption. In participating in the transnational circuits of tourism, Panamanian Afro-Antilleans stage a complex and subtle cultural politics vis-à-vis the state and Panama's multicultural society. The transnational process that is tourism produces rather than reduces difference. This production must be understood historically and with respect to national racial policies." (author)