Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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For more context, the American government was occupying Haiti at more or less the same time from 1915 to 1934.
This period of American occupation of La Española greatly defined the relationship that both countries would have with each other going forward, as well as both countries' military and law enforcement.
The military occupation of the Dominican Republic also led to laws that prevented the entry of workers who weren't white unless they came through official border crossings and paid for temporary residence permits.
This is, according to the book, More Than a Massacre, Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands by Sabine Cadeau.
While there had always been racial prejudice on Hispaniola, this brought even more, leading to Dominican security forces to arrest people on suspicion that they'd broken this law, even if they hadn't.
And it was later used to strip Dominicans of their citizenship.
It also strengthened the idea of, quote-unquote, Dominicanidad as something closer to being white and European, a sentiment that continues to this day, and in some ways is even stronger now than it was then.
What's entering my mind is, I think it was a tweet that said, they're coming out with a new version of white that doesn't include you.
Uh...
Like whiteness as a liminal concept is something that can be hard for people from the US to understand.
But yeah, I've heard this directly elucidated to me many times that like Dominican-ness and blackness are distinct.
Absolutely.
Or that Haitian people are black, which obviously is someone who's lived in the UK and the United States is...
Difficult for me to understand, but all of these things are socially constructed.
It doesn't mean they're not real.
It just means that people made them, people can move them.
Yeah, absolutely.
I have also had people to my face say that the Dominican identity is...
Completely separate from blackness, you know, and as someone who has lived in Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States or owned by it, that also to me was very, very strange.
And I'd say this is someone whose mother is Dominican, right?
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