This first podcast #BlackLivesMatter Everywhere examines recent events of racial violence in the Dominican Republic and how they are connected to struggles against racism in the United States and globally.
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Scholars’ Corner

  • Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones: A Novel. Vol. 3. Soho Press, 1998.
  • Derby, Lauren. "Haitians, Magic, and Money: Raza and Society in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, 1900 to 1937." Comparative Studies in Society and History 36, no. 03 (1994): 488-526.
  • Martinez, Samuel. "Not a Cockfight: Rethinking Haitian-Dominican Relations." Latin American Perspectives (2003): 80-101.
  • Paulino, Edward. "Anti-Haitianism, Historical Memory, and the Potential for Genocidal Violence in the Dominican Republic." Genocide Studies and Prevention 1, no. 3 (2006): 265-288.
  • Paulino, Edward, and Scherezade García. "Bearing Witness to Genocide: The 1937 Haitian Massacre and Border of Lights." Afro-Hispanic Review 32, no. 2 (2013): 111.
  • Torres-Saillant, Silvio. “The Tribulations of Blackness: Stages in Dominican Racial Identity” in Calalloo 23(3): 1086-1111
  • Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon Press, 1995.
  • Turits, Richard Lee. "A World Destroyed, a Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic." Hispanic American Historical Review 82, no. 3 (2002): 589-635.

Links Corner

For more information on the denial of citizenship rights to Haitians and their descendants see:

Sonia Pierre and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Dominican Republic:  A conversation with Miriam Neptune, Manuela Pierre, Ninaj Raoul, Monisha Bajaj.
Barnard College, NYC December 6, 2012

PROTEST IN TIMES SQUARE MANHATTAN, NY --HAITIAN DIASPORA FOR CIVIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS October, 2013

The Dominican Republic and Haiti: A Shared View from the Diaspora: A conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz Americas Quarterly, Summer, 2014

A Barbaric Lynching in the Dominican Republic. February 2015

Haitian Man Lynched Amid Dominican Republic Immigration Controversy
Roque Planas  February 11, 2015

Haitian's Lynching Renews Protests Against Dominican Citizenship Law. NPR February 14, 2015

Violence against Haitians in the Dominican Republic. May 2015

NY Dominicans Protest Haitian Deportations in the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic’s "Ethnic Purging": Edwidge Danticat on Mass Deportation of Haitian Families

Dominican Republic Threatens to Deport Haitian Families
 
The Descent: Dominicans of Haitian Descent Face Deportation June 16, 2015

Concentration Camps in the Dominican Republic? Greg Grandin, The Nation, June 15, 2015