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... by the Dominican intellectual and economic elite. 7 The sustaining of “hegemonic dominicanidad through a multilateral writing process,” as Lorgia García-Peña phrases it, is nuanced in the first three chapters of Colonial Phantoms . 8 Through a careful and detailed analysis of Salomé Ureña’s readability...

... and the subsequent peña (a matinee drag king show and community space hosted by Argelia) twelve days later, tracing their quotidian efforts to generate and sustain public Afro-lesbian space in Havana. 18 First, I explore the social history of the caldosa and consider how it serves as a poignant metaphor...

... University Press, 1996), 5. 10 Ibid., 9; García-Peña quotes Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892; repr., New York: Collier, 1962), 398. 9 Lorgia García-Peña, Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press...

...), 3. 5 See Angel Rama, The Lettered City , trans. and ed. John Charles Chasteen (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016). 4 Valle Ferrer had established 1879 as the date of Capetillo’s birth, but Teresa Peña Jordán’s recent research supports 1882. See Valle Ferrer, Luisa Capetillo...

... de Omicunlé , Lorgia García Peña summarizes the novel: “The narrative twists and detours that follow his [Acilde’s] rebirth also shed light on the continuous predicament of free will: the choice between individual gain and collective good.” García Peña calls this rebirth “a symbolic birth of hope...

...: Female Counternarratives on Puerto Rican Identity (1894–1934),” in Frances Negrón-Muntaner and Ramón Grosfoguel, eds., Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism , 2nd ed. (1997; repr., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 127–39; Peña Jordán, “Luisa Capetillo”; and Luis...

...Figure 2 Pride DR 2016. Photograph posted on Facebook by Lorena Espinoza Peña. Puerta de las Ataranzas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. ...

... scholar Teresa Peña Jordán provided the new birth date after finding Capetillo’s 1917 passport. See Teresa Peña Jordán, “Luisa Capetillo: Una práctica del cuerpo, el pensamiento y la palabra,” in Ramos, Amor y anarquía , 161–73. 25 See Valle Ferrer, Luisa Capetillo . 26 See Luisa Capetillo...

... the home and the host countries as a product of migration to the United States. Lorgia García-Peña underlines that this superposition is also a result of US imperialism and its effects on Hispaniola’s racial imaginary: “Through US-centric ideas about race, gender, sexuality, religion, and exoticism, the US...

... With some important exceptions, including Silvio Torres-Saillant’s and Lorgia García-Peña’s scholarship, there are few feminist and critical race analyses focused on foreigners’ visual representations of Dominicans. 11 For this reason, I engage particularly with Caribbeanist and African Americanist...

... a transnational perspective has allowed me to see how negro is grounded in movement. In her article “Translating Blackness: Dominicans Negotiating Race and Belonging,” Lorgia García-Peña reminds us of the vaivén of Dominican Blackness—the way it comes and goes across multiple geographies, reminding us...

... Luisa Capetillo: Historia de una mujer proscrita (San Juan: Editorial Cultural, 1990); translated by Gloria Waldman-Schwartz as Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist (New York: Peter Lang, 2006). Teresa Peña Jordán recently unearthed archival documents establishing Capetillo’s birth date...

..., performance art- ists Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Peña created Two Undiscovered Amerindians, in which they presented themselves to museumgoers and at public gatherings in a ten-by-twelve- foot iron cage as recently discovered “specimens representative of the Guatinaui people,” a fictitious Central...

... blackness. More recently, Lorgia García Peña has emphasized the “contra dictions ” in Dominican racial negotiation and contestation, while Dixa Ramírez cautions against focusing merely on Dominicans’ explicitly “enunciated” forms of black racial identification or even black cultural politics. 7...

... for Research in Black Culture, the Yale Gilder-Lehrman Center, and the American Council of Learned Societies. rené peña (whose work also appears on the covers of this issue) was born in Havana and studied English at the University of Havana. His photographic work has been shown in Cuba and elsewhere...

... with drawings by the painter and graphic designer Umberto Peña and enriched with photography and illustrations from different sources and contexts, the visual repertoire of the Cuban edition of the Wij slaven van Suriname combines distinct “pasts.” The cover reinterprets John Gabriel Stedman’s drawings...

... Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic’s Border Campaign Against Haiti, 1930–1961 and Lorgia García-Peña’s The Border of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction , among others, were published in 2016. 3 What emerges from these and earlier publications, including Ginetta E. B...

... of the revolution; and finally, the people's soul poet calling for proletarian revolution for the impoverished and exploited peasants and laborers (“Desde el Puente Martín Peña”). These were the people with whom she identified the most and who had surrounded her as she grew up in a rural barrio of her Carolina...