Black and Indigenous Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras [Paperback]

Garifuna live in Central America, primarily Honduras, and the United States. Identified as Black by others and by themselves, they also claim indigenous status and rights in Latin America. Examining this set of paradoxes, Mark Anderson shows how, on the one hand, Garifuna embrace discourses of tradition, roots, and a paradigm of ethnic political struggle. On the other hand, Garifuna often affirm blackness through assertions of African roots and affiliations with Blacks elsewhere, drawing particularly on popular images of U.S. blackness embodied by hip-hop music and culture.

Black and Indigenousexplores the politics of race and culture among Garifuna in Honduras as a window into the active relations among multiculturalism, consumption, and neoliberalism in the Americas. Based on ethnographic work, Anderson questions perspectives that view indigeneity and blackness, nativist attachments and diasporic affiliations, as mutually exclusive paradigms of representation, being, and belonging.

As Anderson reveals, within contemporary struggles of race, ethnicity, and culture, indigeneity serves as a normative model for collective rights, while blackness confers a status of subaltern cosmopolitanism. Indigeneity and blackness, he concludes, operate as unstable, often ambivalent, and sometimes overlapping modes through which people both represent themselves and negotiate oppression.

Acronyms
Introduction
1. Race, Modernity and Tradition in a Garifuna Community
2. From Moreno to Negro: Garifuna and the Honduran Nation, 1920s to 1960s
3. Black Indigenism: The Making of Ethnic Politics and State Multiculturalism
4. Paradoxes of Participation: Garifuna Activism in the Multicultural Era
5. This Is the Black Power We Wear: Black America and the Fashioning of Young Garifuna Men
6. Political Economies of Difference:l£&