Class and ethnicity in Costa Rica: The Afro-Antillean case

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08/04/2008

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Table of Contents Class and ethnicity in Costa Rica: The Afro-Antillean case
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  1. Costa Rica's history.
  2. The popular concept of 'the great white myth'.
  3. Blacks in Costa Rica.
  4. Atlantic coast clashes between Hispanics and Afro-Antilleans.
  5. Black policies of the 1930's-1940's.

Abstract

Latin America has a unique heritage of race mixture and class struggle, within which is located the domination and repression of countless people of African and Amerindian blood. While costa rica is no real exception to this historical trend, many of national proponents claim that their country is so homogenous and egalitarian that it is virtually free of the ethnic- and race-driven conflict that typifies the rest of Latin America. As this paper argues though, costa rica is not uniform in ethnicity or class, for there has been a large, thriving West Indian population on its Atlantic Coast for nearly two hundred years. This group's history in costa rica illustrates the shortcomings of the country's national myths of egalitarianism.

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