成为克里奥尔人探索了人们是如何通过与自然世界的关系而成为自己的,它展示了这些关系如何也总是嵌入在创造黑人、棕色和白人的种族化过程中。梅丽莎·A·约翰逊(Melissa A.Johnson)将读者带到称伯利兹低地为家的加勒比黑人的生活经历中,追溯伯利兹克里奥尔人与周围的植物、动物、水和土壤的关系,并分析这些关系如何与跨国种族群体相交。她持续分析了种族化过程如何始终存在于人们与他们所生活的非人类世界之间的纠葛中。
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Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize
Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and it shows how those relationships are also always embedded in processes of racialization that create blackness, brownness, and whiteness. Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples’ relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages. She provides a sustained analysis of how processes of racialization are always present in the entanglements between people and the non-human worlds in which they live.
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