...April Mayes; Yolanda C. Martín; Carlos Ulises Decena; Kiran Jayaram; Yveline Alexis In this piece by a collective of scholars, activists, and artists, the authors clarify what they mean by “Transnational Hispaniola” and why they believe this conceptualization of the island complements the work done...

... how Haitians and Dominicans are protagonists of transnationalism and “imagined community.” In “Transnational Hispaniola: Toward New Paradigms in Haitian and Dominican Studies,” authors Mayes, Martín, Decena, Jayaram, and Alexis — a col- lective of artists, activists, and scholars of the two...

... inhabit- ants of Senegambia better than others; interestingly the Portuguese did not call them Senegambians or ”Senegals,” but negros dejalof, a reference to the state of Jolof. By 1522, the Wolof of Senegambia were known as the ”Gelofes” by the Spanish, and were fingered in Hispaniola...

... the preceding two years. It thus functions as a history of the final third of the Haitian Revolution. This was when Louverture reached the height of his power, taking over the whole island of Hispaniola and promulgating his own constitution, while ostensibly remaining a loyal colonial subject. Like...

... 1791 until the early nineteenth century, in ways that are suggested by the findings of this article. The actual or potential profitability of tropical export com- modities ensured that the elites of western Hispaniola looked beyond the plantation economy only when they were pushed to do so...

... pivotal points in the eighteenth-­century Atlantic economy, connected not least by the human traffic that had transformed the face of Hispaniola, turning Saint-­Domingue into the most lucrative colony in North America, and increasingly the face of Lisbon itself. The two regions were connected, too...

... brutalized in real life since the moment Columbus arrived in Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic). Unlike the Holocaust of 1933-1945, the geno- cide of Native peoples occurred on the American continents. From the moment Europeans arrived in the Americas, Native peoples were on the defensive...

... Hispaniola, writes: “These are the men who form unions with certain women, who dwell along in the island Matenin [one of the Virgin Islands], which lies 144 Radical History Review next to Española on the side toward India; these latter employ themselves in no labor suitable to their own sex...

..., for what became Haiti as well as the wider French empire. Louverture issued the series of laws including his constitution at the seeming height of his power when he technically controlled the entire island of Hispaniola. Yet each document betrayed Louverture’s insecure control of the general...

... located on the northwest coast of Hispaniola with ready access to the Windward Passage.7 But US designs would not be thwarted by Haiti’s intransigence to direct foreign control. Its military occupation from 1915 to 1934 planted deep roots of power in Haiti. The treaty of the occupation ceded...