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

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 Leónidas 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.

Author: Megan Jeanette Myers, Edward Paulino
Publisher: Amherst College
Published: 09/23/2021
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9781943208265
ISBN10: 1943208263
BISAC Categories:
- History | Caribbean & West Indies | General
- Political Science | Genocide & War Crimes

About the Author
Megan Jeanette Myers is Associate Professor of Spanish at Iowa State University. She is the author of Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature with the University of Virginia Press.

Edward Paulino is Associate Professor at CUNY/John Jay College's Department of Global History and is the author of Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti,1930-1961 published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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