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The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) thanks New York State Assemblyman Hon. Keith Wright for the initial partial funding for the\u00a0First Blacks in the Americas<\/em>\u00a0project 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 project. We also thank New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodr\u00edguez for his decisive leading support from the Council in the form of funds that have allowed a great deal of the research produced by CUNY DSI in recent years, including the research and construction of this academic and educational website.<\/p>

CUNY DSI also thanks Spain\u2019s Ministerio de Cultura, Educaci\u00f3n y Deporte for their continued willingness to authorize us to reproduce and publish all the images of manuscripts from the Archivo General de Indias of Seville and the Archivo General de Simancas, contained in this website and in other CUNY DSI publications. We thank especially several Directors of Archivo General de Indias and several of the directors of its Departamento de Referencias for their processing of all our requests for manuscript reproductions throughout the years. Our\u00a0gratitude goes as well to Archivo Hist\u00f3rico Provincial de Sevilla for authorizing us to reproduce some of their manuscripts. The same gratitude we owe to the Archivo Diocesano of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for their permission to reproduce and publish the images of manuscripts in this platform coming from that repository.<\/p>

First Blacks in the Americas<\/em>\u00a0is a project directed and supervised by CUNY DSI\u2019s Director, Dr. Ramona Hern\u00e1ndez and has been produced in typical CUNY DSI fashion by an ample team of individuals working during different phases with a strong sense of their ultimate mission of service to the public. It has been executed by a group of CUNY DSI senior and junior researchers led by CUNY DSI\u2019s Assistant Director, Anthony Stevens-Acevedo, coordinated by CUNY DSI’s Chief Librarian, Sarah Aponte, with the assistance of Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel. Mr. Stevens-Acevedo has been in charge of identifying and selecting the manuscripts, as well as producing all the paleographic transcriptions of manuscripts contained in the platform. Prof.\u00a0Aponte has also produced the bibliography, revised various textual components and provided a fundamental assistance in many aspects of the strategizing of the production process. Dr. Acosta Corniel\u2019s role has been that of revising, structuring and editing all the historical summaries, as well as contributing to the overall thematic design of the platform. Dr. Tim Williams has been\u00a0in charge of the overall English language editing of the platform. CUNY DSI\u2019s Graphic Artist Javier Pichardo has contributed the entire visual design of the platform’s elegant interface. Consultant web developer Amauris de Jesus has constructed the entire digital structure of the site and overseen its functionality. CUNY DSI’s Research Assistant Luanna Polanco\u00a0has been fundamental in the challenging\u00a0technical work of processing, organizing and uploading all materials onto the platform. CUNY DSI’s Research Assistant Matthew Santana has provided assistance in a variety of technical issues pertaining to these same matters.<\/p>

CUNY DSI’s Chief Archivist Idilio Gracia Pe\u00f1a has supervised the preservation and handling of all the archival primary sources in microfilm and compact-disk formats held at the CUNY DSI Archives. Museum Studies specialist Ruth Lizardi, with the collaboration of Research Assistant Xiomara S\u00e1nchez, was in charge of organizing and labeling around 4,000 photographs of Dominican historical sites related to the early Black presence in the Dominican Republic, separately hosting them on the Flickr.com online system. CUNY DSI\u2019s Accounts & Grants Coordinator Greysi Peralta has taken care of all the accounting, purchasing and personnel hiring associated\u00a0with the project throughout its entire unfolding.<\/p>

Other members of CUNY DSI\u2019s junior staff of researchers, former and current, have contributed\u00a0their enthusiasm and skills whenever they have been asked to intervene. We thank former Assistant Librarian Nelson Santana, Archivist Jessy P\u00e9rez, Assistant Librarian Jhensen Ortiz, Assistant Researchers Mariel Acosta and Laura Rivas. A\u00a0long list of scholars and assistant researchers, working either as seasonal employees or as summer student-interns have also collaborated in researching the scholarship-bibliography from\u00a0which the thematic summaries of the platform are drawn. They include Altagracia Dilon\u00e9-Levat, Dr. Griselda Rodr\u00edguez, Dr. Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Dr. Fidel Tav\u00e1rez, Mar\u00eda P\u00e9rez, Julianny G\u00f3mez, Kelly Callao, and John Van Eiker.<\/p><\/div>

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Finally, a special acknowledgment and appreciation\u00a0from CUNY DSI\u2019s\u00a0First Blacks<\/em>\u00a0team goes as well to the mostly\u00a0Dominican scholars and researchers<\/a>\u00a0who\u00a0during the last five decades have been the pioneers and\u00a0leading promoters of the study of the history and culture of the Afro-descendants of La Espa\u00f1ola-Santo Domingo during colonial times, namely Carlos Larraz\u00e1bal Blanco, Franklin Franco, Carlos Esteban Deive, Hugo Tolentino Dipp, Fradique Lizardo, Dagoberto Tejeda, Martha Ellen Davis, Celsa Albert, Soraya Aracena,\u00a0Alejandra Liriano, and more recently Lynne Guitar Carlos, And\u00fajar Persinal, Genaro Rodr\u00edguez Morel, and Jos\u00e9 Luis Belmonte Postigo.\u00a0Their work constitutes the main source of the existing knowledge about the early Black presence in what is today the Dominican Republic during its first three centuries of formation as a Caribbean people or ethnicity, and their scholarship has been the basis of the overviews on the earliest Blacks of La Espa\u00f1ola offered in the materials on this website.<\/p>

Their work constitutes the main source of the existing knowledge about the early Black presence in what is today the Dominican Republic during its first three centuries of formation as a Caribbean people or ethnicity, and their scholarship has been the basis of the overviews on the earliest Blacks of La Espa\u00f1ola offered in the materials on this website.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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