{"id":41780,"date":"2015-07-14T20:42:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41780"},"modified":"2015-07-14T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T20:47:09","slug":"cuny-exhibition-documents-lives-of-black-africans-in-early-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41780","title":{"rendered":"CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/14\/nyregion\/cuny-exhibition-documents-lives-of-black-africans-in-early-dominican-republic.html\" target=\"_blank\">CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-13<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/s_evangelina\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra E. Garcia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scholars at the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/c\/city_university_of_new_york\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" target=\"_blank\">City University of New York<\/a> are using clues left in 16th-century manuscripts and Spanish records to track the lives of the earliest black Africans in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominican_Republic\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An exhibition now on view of letters and other documents from the archives of CUNY\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccny.cuny.edu\/dsi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Studies Institute<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Archive_of_the_Indies\" target=\"_blank\">General Archives of the Indies<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seville\" target=\"_blank\">Seville, Spain<\/a>, provides a window onto the lives of the often ignored black Africans of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hispaniola\" target=\"_blank\">La Espa\u00f1ola<\/a>, the island of Hispaniola.<\/p>\n<p>In the exhibition, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccny.cuny.edu\/dsi\/sixteenth-century-la-espanola-exhibit.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">16th-Century La Espa\u00f1ola: Glimpses of the First Blacks in the Early Colonial Americas<\/a>,\u201d 25 panels display photos of an original letter or record, along with an English translation, that explain or question situations involving formerly enslaved Africans on the island.<\/p>\n<p>When searching the archives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccny.cuny.edu\/dsi\/anthony-stevens-acevedo.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Stevens-Acevedo<\/a>, the assistant director of the Dominican Studies Institute, focused on keywords like \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>,\u201d \u201cnegro\u201d and \u201cnegra,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/14\/nyregion\/cuny-exhibition-documents-lives-of-black-africans-in-early-dominican-republic.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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