Karifuna autonomy struggle responds to colonial practices of symbolic exclusion

Evidence

The struggle represents a local manifestation of a developing organization of the indigenous in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has emerged as a response to colonial and postcolonial practices of symbolic exclusion. Such practices have been maintained under conditions of structural integration of the Karifuna population into the Dominican political economy. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3268 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Nevertheless with all my strength I refuse to accept that amputation. I feel in myself a soul as immense as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers, my chest has the power to expand without limit. I am a master and I am advised to adopt the humility of the cripple. Yesterday, awakening to the world, I saw the sky turn upon itself utterly and wholly. I wanted to rise, but the disemboweled silence fell back upon me, its wings paralyzed. Without responsibility, straddling Nothingness and Infinity, I began to weep. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Indigenous autonomy struggles in the Caribbean respond to symbolic exclusion despite structural economic integration. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3268; Postcolonial nationalist challenges respond to discourses of colonial exclusion; Colonial rule manufactured political identities that it then naturalized as culture — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 45 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Indigenous autonomy struggles in the Caribbean respond to symbolic exclusion despite structural economic integration. #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3268
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #complicates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556