On this episode, the LMC welcomes Jose Santana to discuss the development of the extreme right in the Dominican Republic and how it uses anti-Haitian racism to cover its capitalist motives. Jose Santana is an economist and research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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June 25th, 2021: Undocumented & LGBTQ pt 12, Dominican Edition
The LMC wraps up Pride Month 2021 by spending the hour with Prof Ana-Maurine Lara for a Dominican edition to our Undocumented & LGBTQ series. Ana-Maurine Lara is an assistant professor in the department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies @ the University of Oregon. Author of, “Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic.”
April 19th, 2019: Baseball in the Dominican Republic
On this episode, the LMC explores both the exploitation and the perseverance of baseball in the Dominican Republic by spending the hour with Rob Ruck. He is a professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of, “Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game.”
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