By Pedro L. San Miguel
Covering 5 centuries and key highbrow figures from every one kingdom, San Miguel bridges literature, background, and ethnography to find the origins of racial, ethnic, and nationwide identification at the island. He reveals that Haiti used to be frequently portrayed by means of Dominicans as "the other--first as a utopian slave society, then as a barbaric country and enemy to the Dominican Republic. even supposing many of the Dominican inhabitants is mulatto and black, Dominican voters tended to stress their Spanish (white) roots, basically silencing the political voice of the Dominican majority, San Miguel argues. This pioneering paintings in Caribbean and Latin American historiography, initially released in Puerto Rico in 1997, is now to be had in English for the 1st time.
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