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.
To Resolve the Ukrainian Problem Once and for All: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ukrainians in Poland, 19431947
The complicated and violent interactions between Ukrainians and Poles during and after World War II have been the subject of competing Ukrainian and Polish historical interpretations. This article sifts through the historical evidence to determine why Ukrainian and Polish memories of that period are so much at odds. The fate of the contested territories of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia was decided ultimately by the Soviet Union, which imposed new borders on Poland. Once those borders had been established, the transfer of Poles from the newly enlarged Soviet Ukraine and the forced removal of Ukrainians from eastern Poland consolidated an ethnically cleansed post-war order.