Shipwrecked identities
Subtitle: navigating race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast
By: Baron L. Pineda.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813538136; 9780813538143
Subjects: Indians of Central America -- Nicaragua -- Ethnic identity.; Indians of Central America -- Urban residence -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras); Indians of Central America -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Social conditions.; Indigenous peoples -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Ethnic identity.; Indigenous peoples -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Social conditions.; Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Race relations.; Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Nicaragua's two coasts; title: From Bilwi to Puerto Cabezas : Mestizo nationalism in the age of agro-industry; title: Porteño cosmopolitanism : the American zone in the social formation of a US company town; title: Region and revolution in Puerto Cabezas; title: Costeño warriors and contra rebels : nature, culture, and ethnic conflict; title: Conclusion.