Claire's Brother
speaker
2,353 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Claire's Brother’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 2.
Appearances
So I know I'm speaking to the choir about this, but this kind of definition of borders and national identity is,
are an essential part of the nation state and immigration enforcement.
Because if you don't have an established border, it's very hard to define the in-group that belongs inside of the nation and that group that doesn't, who can then be detained, penalized, and deported for crossing that imaginary line in the earth.
These kinds of steps by the U.S.
military government were essential to creating this idea that Dominicans and Haitians are two completely different people.
However, to be clear, it's not that this sentiment didn't exist beforehand.
In particular, the Dominican elite hated Haitians a lot for the invasion of DR by Haiti.
That sentiment existed in the borderlands, but a lot of those people were bilingual, which is very different from kind of people inside of the metropole who saw themselves as kind of this one identity versus along the borderlands, which is usually what happens, right?
there is a kind of melding uh identities in ways that isn't seen anywhere else yeah this is the same where i live right like uh because san diego tijuana is effectively like it's not one large city they're important and very very very real differences but like in many ways one community right like so many of our community members like i i
have students at the, uh, at the community college who cross every day.
I've had students when I've taught high school classes who crossed every day.
Like I've got friends who couldn't make rent work in California.
And so they, they, they go to Tijuana and like, obviously, yeah, those people speak two languages or like, uh, both languages at the same time.
I think that's just the nature of, of living in the, in the borderlands.
Yeah, absolutely.
So following the US's exit from the Dominican Republic, dictator Rafael Trujillo came to power in 1930.
He was trained by the US military and eventually rose to the rank of brigadier general of the PND, then militarized it.
And as the word dictator implies, he was not a good guy.
Under him, the already burgeoning and existent anti-Haitian sentiment essentially exploded.
He introduced the cedula, a national identification document for all adult men.
Showing 121–140 of 2,353 · page 7 of 118
← Previous
Next →