Contents
Foreword: Parsley | Rita Dove
Introduction and Virtual Gallery: Bearing Witness on and Beyond the Border | Megan Jeanette Myers and Edward Paulino
Section I: Bearing Witness: Activist and Academic Essays
Haitian-Dominican History and the 1937 Haitian Massacre | Richard Turits and Lauren Derby
Azúcar Amargo | Rosa Iris Diendomi Álvarez
Construir memoria, hacer pedagogía del futuro: Una apuesta por la emancipación en el mismo trayecto del sol | Matías Bosch Carcuro
Border of Lights Historical and Personal Narrative | Rana Dotson and DeAndra Beard
Construyendo puentes, no muros | Jésula Blanc
Jacques Viau Renaud: Icon of Solidarity between Haiti and the Dominican Republic | Sophie Maríñez
Pilgrims of Humane Remembrance at the Borderlands | Silvio Torres-Saillant
To Dajabón, with Love | Cynthia Carrión
“Nourishing the Palm of Liberty”: Jacques Viau’s Haitian-Dominican Insularidad | Raj Chetty and Amaury Rodríguez
Mujer Rayana: Solidarity and Womanism in the Dominican-Haitian Border | Amanda Alcántara
Hasta la Raíz: cine documental por el derecho a la nacionalidad en RD | Juan Carlos González Díaz
Building a Future of Reconciliation: Small Rebellions and the Dominicanidad of Tomorrow | Saudi García
Invocación vigilia: In memoriam 1937, El Corte | Padre Regino Martínez Bretón
Border of Lights: How Memory Activism Re-Imagines National Belonging | Robin Maria DeLugan
Memorialization, solidarity, ethnically mixed couples, and the mystery of hope: mainstreaming Border of Lights | Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Bridget Wooding
Quisqueya Sankofa Consciousness | Ana Ozuna
Committed to Solidarity | The DREAM Project, Catherine DeLaura
Borders as Bellwethers: Border of Lights, Transnational Hispaniola, and American Futures | Kiran C. Jayaram and April J. Mayes
Mwen pa dyab men m ap konte moun | Évelyne Trouillot
Johnny Rivas | Chiqui Vicioso
Desafíos y éxitos en la frontera | Jackson Lorrain “Jhonny Rivas” and John Presimé
A Portrait in Charcoal | Jake Kheel
El racismo, una causa encubierta | Deisy Toussaint
Border-Crossing in Theatre: 2016 ‘Border Story Fest’ | Nehanda Loiseau Julot
Una autobiografía fronteriza | Nancy Betances
Section II: Artistic Endeavors
Postcard and Portrait Projects | Scherezade García and William Vazquez
Bearing Witness to Genocide: The 1937 Haitian Massacre and Border of Lights | Edward Paulino and Scherezade García
Yo soy esa negra | Rosa Iris Diendomi Álvarez
El corte | Óscar Zazo
Morir Soñando | Jasminne Mendez
Fwontyè Limye yo, 2019 | Komedi Mikal PGNE (Grupo Cultural de la PGNE)
Dajabón en acuarela | Laura Ramos
Negritud de las fronteras | Ilses Toribio
In Dialogue with Pierre Michel Jean | Pierre Michel Jean
Derrière les masques/Detrás de las máscaras | Polibio Díaz
Border of Lights and “1937: What did they tell you? ¿Qué te contaron? Ki konte ou?” | Julia Alvarez
“For Petronila, the Weaver” and “Petronila” | Rhina P. Espaillat
La matanza de haitianos, Movimiento 1 | Juan Colón
“Son para un negro que no está solo” and “Son for a negro who is not alone” | Osiris Mosquea
For the Love of Lina | Magaly Colimon
Nadia Jean-Marie | Rebecca Osborne
Section III: Interviews
Padre Regino Martínez Bretón y el nuevo sujeto fronterizo | Megan Jeanette Myers and Edward Paulino
Spreading Change and Sparking Light: A Conversation with Julia Alvarez and Bill Eichner | Megan Jeanette Myers
“An Invitation to Further Explore”: Talking Borders and Border of Lights with Edwidge Danticat | Megan Jeanette Myers
Section IV: Voice Note from 'la frontera'
Trilingual Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgments