Tag: Dominican Republic

  • Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Arte Público Press 2012-04-30 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-746-9 Edited by: Marta Moreno Vega, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality “My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her…

  • At a Santo Domingo Hair Salon, Rethinking an Ideal Look The New York Times 2015-12-30 Sandra E. Garcia On my first trip back to the Dominican Republic in 10 years, as I wandered down the streets of La Zona Colonial, I noticed how their names were weighted with history. Calle de las Damas, a street…

  • Dominicans, just like any other people of the world, have the right to come up with their own identifiers without judgment or interference as long as they aren’t subjugating any group of people. Wanting equality is a universal human trait, and being that the Dominican Republic has also been colonized by white supremacy, racism and…

  • Black in a Foreign Land: In Defense of Dominican Identity The Huffington Post 2015-12-17 César Vargas I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was two months shy of turning 13. The Dominican Republic has a peculiar color metric system–not necessarily on race. So it should go without saying that I wasn’t…

  • Stateless in the Dominican Republic Columbia Law School 2015-12-15 Media Contact: Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu Human Rights Lawyers Champion the Rights of Disenfranchised Dominicans of Haitian Descent, in a Talk at Columbia Law School New York, December 15, 2015—The plight of more than 200,000 people in the Dominican Republic who were stripped of their…

  • Black Lives Matter in the Dominican Republic teleSUR 2015-08-11 Auset Marian Lewis Racial profiling is not just happening in the U.S., Haitians in the Dominican Republic suffer the same discrimination. “Black lives matter” is a resounding cry heard around the world. The UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent said as much…

  • This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.

  • Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation Routledge 2015-05-08 (orginally published in 1969) 122 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781138785007 Hardback ISBN: 9781138784994 Franklin J. Franco (1936-2013) Introduction by: Silvio Torres-Saillant, Dean’s Professor in the Humanities Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros,…

  • Hiding Black Behind the Ears: On Dominicans, Blackness, and Haiti Gawker 2015-07-25 Roberto C. Garcia The first friend I made in Elizabeth, New Jersey was a white kid named Billy. As a New York transplant my Dominicano look wasn’t too popular with Jersey folk. I had an afro, wore dress pants, a collared shirt, and…

  • CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic The New York Times 2015-07-13 Sandra E. Garcia Scholars at the City University of New York are using clues left in 16th-century manuscripts and Spanish records to track the lives of the earliest black Africans in the Dominican Republic. An exhibition now on view…