Reviews
Mulatto Republic contributes immensely to an alternative analysis of anti-black identity and will undoubtedly inspire other researchers to probe deeply into the once-safe assumption that the anti-Haitian and Trujillato dictatorship provided the formidable answer to the question of identity formation in the Dominican Republic.
--The Caribbean Quarterly
Seeks... to unravel what appears or figures as a mystery: that of the racial imaginary in a society like the Dominican, in which the black presence is undeniable, but in which, as contradictory as it looks, monumental efforts have been made... to deny it.
--A Contra Corriente
One of the best and most thoroughly researched contributions to Dominican history in several years.
--H-Net Reviews
An unequivocal contribution to the scholarship, adding significantly to the conversation about race and Dominican identity and opening up new repertoires of inquiry and research.
--Hispanic American Historical Review
This rich and highly readable synthesis of racial thought in San Pedro demonstrates that Dominican ideas about race evolved in dialogue and in struggle with a series of interlocutors, not just its western neighbor.
--New West Indian Guide