The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic

Megan Jeanette Myers,Edward Paulino

The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Amherst College
Country
United States
Published
23 September 2021
Pages
344
ISBN
9781943208265

The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic

Megan Jeanette Myers,Edward Paulino

Border of Lights, a volunteer collective, returns each October to Dominican-Haitian border towns to bear witness to the 1937 Haitian Massacre ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. This crime against humanity has never been acknowledged by the Dominican government and no memorial exists for its victims. A multimodal, multi-vocal space for activists, artists, scholars, and others connected to the BOL movement, The Border of Lights Reader provides an alternative to the dominant narrative that positions Dominicans and Haitians as eternal adversaries and ignores cross-border and collaborative histories. This innovative anthology asks large-scale, universal questions regarding historical memory and revisionism that countries around the world grapple with today.

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