{"id":48533,"date":"2015-08-02T00:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T00:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48533"},"modified":"2016-12-27T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:33:42","slug":"blacks-mulattos-and-the-dominican-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48533","title":{"rendered":"Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Routledge<\/a>
\n2015-05-08 (orginally published in 1969)
\n122 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781138785007
\nHardback ISBN: 9781138784994<\/p>\n

Franklin J. Franco (1936-2013)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Introduction by:<\/p>\n

Silvio Torres-Saillant<\/strong><\/a>, Dean’s Professor in the Humanities
\nSyracuse University, Syracuse, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation<\/em> is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros, los mulatos y la naci\u00f3n dominicana<\/em> by esteemed Dominican<\/a> scholar Franklin J. Franco. Published in 1969, this book was the first systematic work on the role of Afro-descendants in Dominican society, the first society of the modern Americas where a Black-Mulatto<\/a> population majority developed during the 16th century. Franco\u2019s work, a foundational text for Dominican ethnic studies, constituted a paradigm shift, breaking with the distortions of traditional histories that focused on the colonial elite to place Afro-descendants, slavery, and race relations at the center of Dominican history.<\/p>\n

This translation includes a new introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse University) which contextualizes Franco’s work, explaining the milieu in which he was writing, and bringing the historiography of race, slavery, and the Dominican Republic<\/a> up to the present. Making this pioneering work accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time, this is a must-have for anyone interested in the lasting effects of African slavery on the Dominican population and Caribbean societies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n