The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola

Wright, Micah

doi:10.1215/00182168-6933600

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“…The emphasis on the Taíno that began in the nineteenth century has continued into the contemporary era. In the Dominican Republic, for example, there is an interest in studying Taíno heritage (e.g., Con Aguilar et al, 2017;Pešoutová, 2015;Ricourt, 2016) Candelier, 1977;Ulloa Hung, 2016). Some of these ideas also translate to the way people perceive Indigenous heritage today.…”

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Revising Biased Representations of Past Indigenous People in School Settings in the Dominican Republic

Herrera Malatesta,

Con Aguilar,

Álvarez

2024

Local Voices, Global Debates

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Revising Biased Representations of Past Indigenous People in School Settings in the Dominican Republic

Herrera Malatesta,

Con Aguilar,

Álvarez

2024

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“…Africans were trafficked to Hispaniola as part of Christopher Columbus's second expedition to the island in 1493 and became the main source of labor after the near total genocide of the Taino and Arawak aborigines (Ricourt, 2016). By 1542, the Santo Domingo colony claimed by Columbus for Spain was populated by an estimated 20–30,000 Blacks and 6,000 Whites (Deive, 1980, 602).…”

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Engendering “Illegality”: Blackness, citizenship, and Dominico‐Haitian motherhood

Lyon

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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In 2013,the Dominican Republic's highest court ruled to retroactively apply the elimination of jus soli citizenship, commonly known as birthright citizenship. The ruling impacted more than 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent and culminated a decades‐long attack on territorially based citizenship in the country, which largely provided access to the children of Haitians, who make up more than 80% of the country's migrants. The intensification of anti‐birthright citizenship politics and the implementation of a host of restrictive measures since 2004 shifted focus from the male labor as the primary target of migrant control, to the “pregnant migrant.” This article examines how these policies shaped Dominico‐Haitian women's experiences of motherhood by drawing on interviews and participant observation undertaken from 2014 to 2018 in and around Santo Domingo. I argue that anti‐birthright citizenship politics target Black women's reproduction in a form of racialized violence that shares continuities with the nation's history of enslavement.

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The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola

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Revising Biased Representations of Past Indigenous People in School Settings in the Dominican Republic

Revising Biased Representations of Past Indigenous People in School Settings in the Dominican Republic

Engendering “Illegality”: Blackness, citizenship, and Dominico‐Haitian motherhood

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