Dividing Hispaniola
Subtitle: the Dominican Republic's border campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961
By: Edward Paulino
Series: Pitt Latin American series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780822963790
Subjects: Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937; Foreign relations; History
Description: "Hispaniola is split by a border that divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Dividing Hispaniola is a study of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo{u2019}s scheme, during the mid-twentieth century, to create and reinforce a buffer zone on this border through the establishment of state institutions and an ideological campaign against what was considered an encroaching black, inferior, and bellicose Haitian state. Paulino examines the campaign against Haiti and shows that Dominican attitudes of admiration and solidarity toward Haitians and extensive intermixture around the border region were commonplace. In sum his study argues against the notion that anti-Haitianism was part of a persistent and innate Dominican ethos."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The barbarians who threaten this part of the world": protecting the unenforceable; title: "Making crosses on his chest": U.S. racism confronts a border insurgency; title: "A systematic campaign of extermination": racial agenda on the border; title: "Demands of civilization": changing identity by remapping and renaming; title: "Silent invasions": anti-Haitian propaganda; title: "Instructed to register as white or mulatto": white numerical ascendency; title: Epilogue: "return to the source".