Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast

Latin American Politics and Society | October 1, 2008| | Copyright

Baron L. Pineda, Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Bibliography, index, 280 pp.; paperback $23.95.

This book critiques our usual assumptions about an idiosyncratic theater in the Central American wars of the 1970s to 1990s. The people of Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast, on the Atlantic side of the country, have always regarded themselves as very different from those on the country's Pacific coast. In contrast to "the Spanish" of western Nicaragua, the costenos of eastern Nicaragua identify either as Miskito ...

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