First Blacks In The Americas

Thanks and acknowledgements   The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) thanks New York State Assemblyman Hon. Keith Wright for the initial partial funding for the First Blacks in the Americas project provided in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 through special New York State legislative grants. Those grants sustained the work of the earliest research assistants assigned to this […]

A silenced history Despite the fact that La Española (also called Santo Domingo by extension of its colonial capital’s name) was what scholar Silvio Torres-Saillant has called “the cradle of Blackness in the Americas,”[1] the Western academy until very recently has almost completely overlooked this early history of the Black experience in the New World Black […]