Becoming Creole : : Nature and Race in Belize / / Melissa A. Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Johnson, Melissa A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.) :; 24 b&w images

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Hewers of Wood -- Chapter 3. Bush -- Chapter 4. Living in a Powerful World -- Chapter 5. Entangling the More than Human -- Chapter 6. Wildlife Conservation, Nature Tourism, and Creole Becomings -- Chapter 7. Transnational Becomings -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Appendix: Kriol Words and Phrases Used in Text -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index