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oapen-20.500.12657-577862023-03-21T12:27:35Z The Border of Lights Reader Myers, Megan Jeanette Paulino, Edward History History of the Americas War crimes bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JW Warfare & defence::JWX Other warfare & defence issues::JWXK War crimes 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. 2022-08-05T12:46:06Z 2022-08-05T12:46:06Z 2021 book ONIX_20220805_9781943208272_15 9781943208265 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57786 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781943208272.pdf 9781943208272.epub Amherst College Press Amherst College Press 10.3998/mpub.12278109 10.3998/mpub.12278109 bd61c84b-c01e-472d-a7b1-a72ad38700ed 9781943208265 Amherst College Press 344 open access
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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.
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