Rethinking the 1937 Genocide in the Dominican Republic
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We are delighted to welcome professor Sabine Cadeau (McGill) for a two-day visit to the University of Toronto. Please join us for her first invited lecture about the massacre of Haitians carried in 1937 in the Dominican Republic.
About the Presentation
During the Fall of 1937, an estimated 20,000 ethnic Haitians were killed along the Dominican border at the order of the dictator Rafael Trujillo. Contemporaneous with the rise of fascism in Europe, this event was one the largest single explosions of racial violence anywhere in the Americas during the 20th century. This talk addresses the 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic in light of recently uncovered archival evidence as well as oral histories conducted with some of the last surviving refugees of this event. The talk is based on my 2022 book More Than a Massacre, which emphasizes the troubled crescendo of anti-Haitian repression that preceded the genocide, the Trujillo regime’s evolving uses of racial legislation first introduced by American occupiers in 1919, and the untold story of the tense and violent aftermath of the genocide along the newly closed Haitian Dominican border.
About the Presenter
Sabine Cadeau is a historian of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean at McGill University. Her first book More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands was published by the University of Cambridge Press Afro-Latin America series. In 2023, More than a Massacre was awarded the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award and the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide. Her second manuscript, Bonds and Bondage: Financial Capitalism and the Legacies of Atlantic Slavery at the University of Cambridge is forthcoming with the University of Cambridge Press. This manuscript emerged from the commissioned University of Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry that began in 2019. It is a study of the University of Cambridge’s multiple relationships with slave trading companies such as the East India Company, The Royal African Company, and especially the South Sea Company.
Please note: Join us for the second invited lecture by professor Cadeau, Bonds and Bondage: The University of Cambridge and The Financial Legacies of Atlantic Slavery on October 3rd. For more details, visit the event listing in our website.