The ends of paradise : race, extraction, and the struggle for Black life in Honduras

Author/Creator:

Loperena, Christopher, author

Publication/Creation:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

The ends of paradise : race, extraction, and the struggle for Black life in Honduras / Christopher A. Loperena

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Land tenure--Honduras
Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Honduras--Government relations
Tourism--Government policy--Honduras
Economic development--Honduras
Land use, Rural--Honduras
Black people--Honduras--Social conditions

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction : imagining Black Indigenous futures -- The extractivist logics of progress -- The Garífuna CoastTM : the inclusionary politics of expulsion -- Tensions of autonomous blackness -- Rescue the land, defend the future -- The limits of indigeneity : pueblo Garífuna v. Honduras.

Summary:

"The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country's northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided for over 200 years. In "The Ends of Paradise," Christopher Loperena examines the Garifuna struggle for life and collective autonomy, and demonstrates how this struggle challenges concerted efforts by the state and multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, to render both their lands and their culture into fungible tourism products. Using a combination of participant observation, courtroom ethnography, and archival research, Loperena reveals how purportedly inclusive tourism projects form part of a larger neoliberal, extractivist development regime, which remakes Black and Indigenous territories into frontiers of progress for the mestizo majority. The book offers a trenchant analysis of the ways Black dispossession and displacement are carried forth through the conferral of individual rights and freedoms, a prerequisite for resource exploitation under contemporary capitalism. By demanding to be accounted for on their terms, Garifuna anchor blackness to Central America--a place where Black peoples are presumed to be nonnative inhabitants--and to collective land rights. Steeped in Loperena's long term activist engagement with Garifuna land defenders, this book is a testament to their struggle and to the promise of "another world" in which Black and Indigenous peoples thrive"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xii, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937601898002486

ISBN:

9781503632950
1503632954
9781503634008
1503634000

OCLC Number:

1304832712

Barcode:

010003531592