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Edmund Gordon Evidence from Afro-Nicaraguan Creole communities indicates that racial-cultural identity is conditional and contingent, but not endlessly so. Even though it is multiple, it is lived as stable and unified by modernist subjects invested in politics of location. The contents of history and memory are relatively finite and fixed at any given moment in time. Therefore identity is limited at any given moment by specific histories of power-laden interpolations and by the specificity and particularity of the symbolic and material resources available for subject making. These latter are the products of particular history and social memory processes that again are finite and fixed in that moment. The paper therefore claims that at the current moment, Creoles cannot be Bosnian Muslims or Nicaraguan Mestizos. The specifics of Creole history and memory do not provide the necessary resources for such acts of identification. However, they probably can be Afro-Anglo, Afro-Latino, and Miskito Indian and a range of other identities. |
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