... Olivorio Mateo Liborismo US Occupation Dominican Republic Afro-Dominican religion salves ...

...-Dominican salves , interviews, photographs, letters, and a novel Song of the Water Saints (2002), to demonstrate how the logic of the occupation contributed to imagining the Dominican racialized body as a site that needed to be controlled and civilized. The nonofficial evidence the chapter recovers...

... readings of military records related to the persecution and killing of the Afro-Dominican religious leader Olivorio Mateo at the hands of the U.S. Marines during the Occupation of 1916–24. The official Marine records are studied in tandem with Afro-Dominican salves , interviews, photographs, letters...