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

By:

Johnson, Melissa A, 1962- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813597003
9780813597027

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F1457 .B436 2019

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	F1457.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1124763397

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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