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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"