The Border of Lights Reader - 9781943208265

The Border of Lights ReaderBearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic\nAuthor(s): Megan Jeanette Myers, Edward Paulino\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Michigan Publishing Services, United States\nImprint: Amherst College Press\nISBN-13: 9781943208265, 978-1943208265\nSynopsis\nBorder 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 Lenidas 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 me.