audiobook The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender; Asceticism; and Historiography by From Duke University Press Books in History

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In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans; ethnic Haitians; and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent; silencing; and exclusionary effects. Centering the role of U.S. imperialism in drawing racial borders between Haiti; the Dominican Republic; and the United States; she analyzes musical; visual; artistic; and literary representations of foundational moments in the history of the Dominican Republic: the murder of three girls and their father in 1822; the criminalization of Afro-religious practice during the U.S. occupation between 1916 and 1924; the massacre of more than 20;000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937; and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. García-Peña also considers the contemporary emergence of a broader Dominican consciousness among artists and intellectuals that offers alternative perspectives to questions of identity as well as the means to make audible the voices of long-silenced Dominicans.