Tag: Silvio Torres-Saillant

  • 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,…

  • Black In The Dominican Republic: Denying Blackness HuffPost Live The Huffington Post 2014-06-10 Marc Lamont Hill, Host In Latin America and Caribbean countries like the Dominican Republic many deny being of African decent, despite 90 percent of the population possessing black ancestry. Where has the blackness gone in the region? Guests: Biany Perez (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)…

  • Identity issues Harvard Gazette 2011-01-28 Stephanie Schorow, Harvard Correspondent ‘Black in Latin America’ examines perceptions of race There were laughs of recognition as Silvio Torres-Saillant, professor of English and humanities at Syracuse University, told a story that underscored a major point of the “Black in Latin America” conference, which kicked off on Jan. 27 at…

  • “The Afro-Latin@ Reader” focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean.