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2. Caribbean Carretera: Race, Space, and Social Liminality in Costa Rica
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sharman,Russell Leigh (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- January, 2001
- Published:
- Oxford: Oxford Microform Publications
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Bulletin of Latin American Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(1) : 46-62
- Notes:
- "A single highway connects the Caribbean province of Limón to mainstream society in the highlands of Costa Rica. This paper explores the ways in which that highway affects the status hierarchy of mainstream society in Costa Rica, and how the construction of whiteness as an unexamined racial qualifier for total social incorporation constrains the perception of blacks as social liminars and blackness as a state of communitas. The argument elaborates the work of Victor Turner on ritual liminality to suggest the structural ambiguity of Afro-Latin Americans in the context of Costa Rica." (author"
3. On Tourism and the Constructions of 'Paradise Islands' in Central America and the Caribbean
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Guerron Montero,Carla (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Bulletin of Latin American Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(1) : 21-34
- Notes:
- "A comparative perspective of the tourism industry in the islands of Colón, Panama and Carriacou, Grenada is presented in this article. The islands have long histories of association with colonial powers, coupled with more recent histories of 'discovery' as tourist destinations. The historical constructions of 'paradise islands' and the appropriation of tourism for nation-building purposes in these territories are analysed. The discussion assesses the underlying reasons for the differing responses by African Caribbean populations toward tourism development, in spite of similar colonial and postcolonial histories." --The Author