Postcolonial Play: Socializing Race and Language on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua -- Amanda Minks

January 19, 2010 by jmukai

Tuesday April 20th, 5:30 pm in 701C Dodge Hall
Amanda Minks
Postcolonial Play: Socializing Race and Language on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua

This talk examines the endurance of colonial legacies of race and language in the socializing activities of Miskitu children on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Along with institutional contexts, informal play and performance are key sites for socializing racialized concepts of persons and languages. The resilience of race as a prominent feature of cultural hierarchies raises questions about celebratory discourses (both popular and academic) of cultural interaction and hybridity, alternately viewed as creolization, transculturation or interculturalism.

Amanda Minks is an Assistant Professor in the Honors College of the University of Oklahoma, where she is affiliated with programs in Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Native American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an M.A. from Wesleyan University.

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