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Author Johnson, Melissa A., 1962- author.

Title Becoming Creole : nature and race in Belize / Melissa A. Johnson.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Critical Caribbean studies
Critical Caribbean studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: becoming Creole -- Hewers of wood : histories of nature, race and becoming -- Bush: racing the more than human -- Living in a powerful world -- Entangling the more than human : becoming Creole -- Wildlife conservation, nature tourism and Creole becomings -- Transnational becomings : from deer sausage to tilapia -- Conclusion: livity and (human) being -- Appendix: Kriol words and phrases used in text.
Summary 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. -- Provided by publisher
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Language In English.
Subject Ethnology -- Belize.
Ethnology.
Belize.
Racially mixed people -- Belize.
Racially mixed people.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Johnson, Melissa A., 1962- Becoming Creole. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019] 9780813596990 (DLC) 2017060242 (OCoLC)1021062008
ISBN 9780813597003 (electronic book)
0813597005 (electronic book)
9780813597027 (electronic book)
0813597021 (electronic book)
9780813596990
0813596998
9780813596983
081359698X
Standard No. 10.36019/9780813597027