Steven Gregory 
The Devil behind the Mirror 
Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic

In
The Devil behind the Mirror, Steven Gregory provides a compelling and intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the adjacent towns of Boca Chica and Andrés, Gregory’s study deftly demonstrates how transnational flows of capital, culture, and people are mediated by contextually specific power relations, politics, and history. He explores such topics as the informal economy, the making of a telenova, sex tourism, and racism and discrimination against Haitians, who occupy the lowest rung on the Dominican economic ladder. Innovative, beautifully written, and now updated with a new preface,  
The Devil behind the Mirror masterfully situates the analysis of global economic change in everyday lives.

İçerik tablosu

List of Illustrations

Preface to the 2014 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Politics of Livelihood

2. The Spatial Economy of Difference

3. Structures of the Imagination

4. Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity

5. Race, Identity, and the Body Politic

6. The Politics of Transnational Capital

Afterword

Notes

References

Index

Yazar hakkında

Steven Gregory is Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of Santería in New York City: A Study in Cultural Resistance and Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community. He coedited Race with Roger Sanjek.