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Prof. Sabine Cadeau's Book wins Raphael Lemkin Award

Professor Sabine Cadeau’s book, More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian–Dominican Borderlands, won the Raphael Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide.

 is a history of race, citizenship, statelessness, and genocide from the perspective of ethnic Haitians in Dominican border provinces. Sabine F. Cadeau traces a successively worsening campaign of explicitly racialized anti-Haitian repression that began in 1919 under the American Occupiers, accelerated in 1930 with the rise of Trujillo, and culminated in 1937 with the slaughter of an estimated twenty thousand civilians. Relatively unknown by contrast with contemporary events in Europe, the Haitian-Dominican experience has yet to feature in the broader literature on genocide and statelessness in the twentieth century. Bringing to light the massacre from the perspective of the ethnic Haitian victims themselves, Cadeau combines official documents with oral sources to demonstrate how ethnic Haitians interpreted their ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ legal status at the border, as well as their interpretation of the massacre and its aftermath, including the ongoing killing and land conflict along the post-massacre border.

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