Title Shipwrecked identities : navigating race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast / Baron L. Pineda

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) : map map Series Free online access: Knowledge Unlatched Contents The setting -- Nicaragua's two coasts -- From Bilwi to Puerto Cabezas : Mestizo nationalism in the age of agro-industry -- Company time -- Neighborhoods and official ethnicity -- Costeño warriors and contra rebels : nature, culture, and ethnic conflict -- Conclusion Summary Global identity politics rest heavily on notions of ethnicity and authenticity, especially in contexts where indigenous identity becomes a basis for claims of social and economic justice. In contemporary Latin America there is a resurgence of indigenous claims for cultural and political autonomy and for the benefits of economic development. Yet these identities have often been taken for granted. In this historical ethnography, Baron L. Pineda traces the history of the port town of Bilwi, now known officially as Puerto Cabezas, on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua to explore the development, transformation, and function of racial categories in this region over time. From the English colonial period, through the Sandanista conflict of the 1980s, to the aftermath of the Contra War, Pineda shows how powerful outside actors, as well as Nicaraguans, have made efforts to influence notions about African and Black identity among the Miskito Indians, Afro-Nicaraguan Creole, and Mestizos in the region. In the process, he provides insight into the causes and meaning of social movements and political turmoil.; "Shipwrecked Identities" also includes important critical analysis of the role of anthropologists and other North American scholars in the Contra-Sandinista conflict, as well as the ways these scholars have defined ethnic identities in Latin America. As the indigenous people of the Mosquito Coast continue to negotiate the effects of a long history of contested ethnic and racial identity, this book takes an important step in questioning the origins, legitimacy, and consequences of such claims Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL In Knowledge Unlatched Subject Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Ethnic identity Urban Indians -- Central America Indians of Central America -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Social conditions Indigenous peoples -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Ethnic identity Indigenous peoples -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Urban Indians Indians of Central America -- Ethnic identity Indians of Central America -- Social conditions Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Race relations Social conditions Ethnische Identität Rassismus SUBJECT Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Race relations Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Social conditions Subject Central America Central America -- Mosquitia Nicaragua Moskitoküste Form Electronic book LC no. 2005019946 ISBN 1429416300 9781429416306 9786610947041 661094704X 0813538130 9780813538136

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