From Dictatorship to Diaspora: The Dominican Republic

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The role of race, gender, dictatorship, U.S. influence, and transnationalism in shaping the Dominican Republic. Spanish and French colonialism, slavery, racism. Relations with Haiti. Independence, plantation economy. U.S. interventions. Post/Neocolonialism. Trujillo dictatorship and aftermath, globalization, labor dynamics, and transnationalism. Racialization. Political and economic U.S. Dominican experience. Legal treatment of Haitian/Dominicans.