Excerpt from Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (2018)

• Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo

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Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo

Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo is Assistant Professor of American Studies and English at Brown University. She is a scholar of transnational Caribbean literatures and expressive cultures. Her first book, Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (NYU Press, 2018), received the 2019 Barbara Christian Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association. Her writing has appeared in Atlantic Studies, The Black Scholar, Comparative Literature, Small Axe, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, Social Text, and ASAP/Journal. She is in the midst of manifesting her second book project, Blackness in the Hills and the Photographic Negative, which is under contract with Duke University Press. ************ Excerpted from Dixa Ramírez, Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (New York: New York University Press, 2018). Copyright © 2018 New York University. Reprinted with permission from NYU Press. *********