Blood, Power, and Privilege: Why the man who ordered the slaughter of a race was not racist
This article argues that Trujillo's ordered massacre of the people in Haiti did not stem from his own racism. Rather, it argues that it was motivated by a desire to please the Dominican elite and a desire for personal power. This article is available in Constructing the Past: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/constructing/vol7/iss1/15 Constructing the Past Blood, Power, and Privilege Why the man who ordered the slaughter of a race was not racist
A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic
Modernity in Dominican History (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), with permission of the publishers. This essay is based on fieldwork conducted jointly with Lauren Derby, and many of its ideas were developed in discussion with her. It forms part of a larger work we are completing on Dominican-Haitian relations, anti-Haitianism, and histories and representations of the 1937 Haitian massacre. This research was generously funded by an IIE Fulbright Grant for Collaborative Research. Versions of this article were presented at the New Series in Politics, History, and Culture at the University of Michigan, the Princeton Latin American History Workshop, the New York Latin American History Workshop, University of Michigan’s Evening Seminar Series in Ethnicity and Migration in the Caribbean, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. I thank all the participants for their helpful comments. I am also grateful to Jeremy Adelman, Michiel Baud, Bruce Calder, Sueann Caulfield, Miguel Centeno, John Coatsworth, Fernando Coronil, Alejandro de la Fuente, Ada Ferrer, Julie Franks, Lowell Gudmundson, Thomas Holt, Friedrich Katz, Mark Mazower, Kenneth Mills, Julie Skurski, Stanley Stein, George Steinmetz, and HAHR’s anonymous reviewer for their critical suggestions on the essay and to Lauren Derby, Jean Ghasmann Bissainthe, Raymundo González, Edward Jean Baptiste, Hannah Rosen, and Ciprián Soler for their invaluable contributions to this work.
Mode of action of bredinin with guanylic acid on L5178Y mouse leukemia cells.
Moderate concentrations of bredinin (1.2 X 10(-5) M) strongly inhibited growth of L5178Y cells, with the effect being reversed by guanylic acid (GMP). However, at higher concentrations of breeding the inhibition was not reversed completely by GMP added in excess. Bredinin was cytocidal at concentrations above 2 X 10(-5) M, but 5 X 10(-5) M bredinin in the presence of excess GMP, bredinin was cytostatic. Bredinin inhibited nucleic acid synthesis of L5178Y cells, but bredinin itself was not incorporated into the nucleic acid. Inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis was clearly reversed by GMP. Similarly chromosomal aberrations in L5178Y cells caused by bredinin were reversed by GMP. In contrast, the effect of ahigh concentration of bredinin on cell multiplication was not reversed by GMP. The modal volume of L5178Y cells increased during incubation in the presence of bredinin and GMP for 24 hours, 5 X 10(-5) M bredinin with GMP causing a 70% increase in cell volume. This increase in cell volume was mainly due to an increase in the protein content of the cells. The cytostatic effect of bredinin with GMP was reversed completely by adenosine-3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP). Other cyclic nucleotides and nucleotides were ineffective. The reversing effect of cyclic AMP on cell survival depended upon the concentration of GMP, and was not seen in the absence of GMP. It was concluded that cyclic AMP influences the secondary cytostatic effect of bredinin, and not the primary cytotoxic effect reversed by GMP.