New narratives about the island of Hispaniola are indispensable to understanding relations between the Dominican Republic and Haiti beyond assumed xenophobia and Dominican racial superiority. Transnational Hispaniola offers a new perspective long overdue in Hispaniola studies. In this collection of essays edited by April J. Mayes and Kiran C. Jayaram, the authors engage in a discussion that looks at Hispaniola in its entirety. Looking at the entire island is sine qua non in creating a pan-Caribbean unity based on Caribbean African ancestry, anticolonial struggles, and present interconnections. This collection emerged from the Transnational Hispaniola conference, held at Rutgers University from 2010 until 2016; the editors arranged the book with the purpose of informing a wider audience of the papers presented at these conferences.
This book's contributors provide an insightful and cohesive analysis of Hispaniola from an interdisciplinary perspective. Transnationalism works as the theoretical base bonding the chapters, which argue that...
