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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2022
      June 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108942508
      9781108837682
      9781108931526
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108942508
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.618kg, 326 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 326 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, African Studies, History, Latin American History
      Series:
      Afro-Latin America
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    Subjects:
    Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Area Studies, Latin American Studies, African Studies, History, Latin American History
    Series:
    Afro-Latin America
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    More than a Massacre is a history of race, citizenship, statelessness, and genocide from the perspective of ethnic Haitians in Dominican border provinces. Sabine F. Cadeau traces a successively worsening campaign of explicitly racialized anti-Haitian repression that began in 1919 under the American Occupiers, accelerated in 1930 with the rise of Trujillo, and culminated in 1937 with the slaughter of an estimated twenty thousand civilians. Relatively unknown by contrast with contemporary events in Europe, the Haitian-Dominican experience has yet to feature in the broader literature on genocide and statelessness in the twentieth century. Bringing to light the massacre from the perspective of the ethnic Haitian victims themselves, Cadeau combines official documents with oral sources to demonstrate how ethnic Haitians interpreted their changing legal status at the border, as well as their interpretation of the massacre and its aftermath, including the ongoing killing and land conflict along the post-massacre border.

    Awards

    Winner, 2023 Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association

    Winner, 2023 Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide

    Reviews

    'Through careful archival research, deepened with remarkable interviews with survivors and their descendants, Cadeau’s More Than a Massacre powerfully illuminates and reframes our understanding of the 1937 genocide. This vital and resonant contribution insists that this story must be told, and heard, as a way both of remembering those who died and of understanding the genocide’s ongoing legacies in the present.'

    Laurent Dubois - author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History

    'This superbly researched and enormously insightful study provides far more than just another excellent account of the continuously interwoven relationship between inextricably conjoined bordering countries. This is an extraordinarily fine analysis of the central but insoluble contradictions between what the author defines as ‘Haitian ethnicity and Dominican nationality.’ It richly details the genesis of an antagonistic racial, ethnic and national conflict that was greatly exacerbated by the US occupation during the early twentieth century.'

    Franklin W. Knight - author of The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism

    'Sabine Cadeau’s compelling study expands the contours of her subject thematically, chronologically, and geopolitically. Placing the massacre within the larger frame of twentieth-century genocidal crimes, Cadeau pays homage to the victims of Trujillo’s murderous regime by foregrounding times when they fought back. More than a Massacre is a superior scholarly contribution.'

    Silvio A. Torres-Saillant - co-author (with Nancy Kang) of The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat

    'Sabine Cadeau’s extraordinary and harrowing study finally establishes the 1937 Dominican massacre of ethnic Haitians as a major twentieth century genocide. A most timely tour de force – required reading for those interested in questions of genocide, forced migration, human rights, and the relationship between definitions of citizenship, nationalism, and race.'

    Nan Elizabeth Woodruff - author of American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta

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