Taíno revival
Subtitle: critical perspectives on Puerto Rican identity and cultural politics
By: Gabriel Haslip-Viera, editor.
Contributors: Haslip-Viera, Gabriel.
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers; Markus Wiener Pub; Brand: Markus Wiener Pub
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Puerto Rico; Taino Indians -- Ethnic identity; Identity (Psychology) -- Puerto Rico; Nationalism -- Puerto Rico; Puerto Rico -- Race relations
Description: "This stimulating and timely collection examines the Taino revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture and pedigree of the pre-Columbian Taino Indian population of Puerto Rico and the western Caribbean.".

"The Tainos became a symbol of Puerto Rican identity at the end of the 19th century, when local governments and nationalistic intellectuals began to appropriate the Tainos for the conception of a socially and racially balanced Puerto Rican society. Activists in the Puerto Rican diaspora revitalized this idea.".

"Modern critics now claim that the Taino heritage has been canonized through state-sponsored institutions, such as festivals, museums, and textbooks, at the expense of blacks. In the past, officials, alarmed at the black majorities on the other Caribbean Islands, tried to "whiten" Puerto Rican society by calling all people of color Tainos. Others complain that the Taino revival lost its fervor, evolving from an anti-colonialist movement to a mere fashionable trend.

Still the Taino heritage remains a central part of Puerto Rican Identity in the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Local/diasporic Taínos : towards a cultural politics of memory, reality, and imagery / Arlene Dávila; title: Making indians out of blacks : the revitalization of Taíno identy in contemporary Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany; title: What's in a name, an indian name? / Peter Roberts; title: The indians are coming! The indians are coming! : the Taíno and Puerto Rican identity / Miriam Jiménez Román; title: Rethinking Taíno / Roberto Mucardo Borrero.