2024-05-04T12:48:18Z http://haitianallstarz.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Dominican&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:haitianallstarz.com,2013-11-27:6214753:Video:77349 2013-11-27T15:38:01.634Z Haitian All-Starz http://haitianallstarz.com/profile/HaitianAllStarz

<a href="http://haitianallstarz.com/video/short-documentary-shades-of-the-border"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1512634519?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>One island, two countries, many skin colors. A history of racial prejudice divides the island of Hispaniola.<br></br> <br></br> More about Shades of the Border from filmmaker Patrick Smith<br></br> <br></br> The racial issues that exist on the island of Hispaniola can hardly be described as "black and white." Perceptions of race among Haitians and Dominicans have been evolving (or…

<a href="http://haitianallstarz.com/video/short-documentary-shades-of-the-border"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1512634519?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />One island, two countries, many skin colors. A history of racial prejudice divides the island of Hispaniola.<br /> <br /> More about Shades of the Border from filmmaker Patrick Smith<br /> <br /> The racial issues that exist on the island of Hispaniola can hardly be described as "black and white." Perceptions of race among Haitians and Dominicans have been evolving (or devolving) over several centuries of political, military, and social unrest, and can't be consolidated into a brief explanation or short documentary. tag:haitianallstarz.com,2011-04-13:6214753:Video:19406 2011-04-13T18:42:21.940Z Haitian All-Starz http://haitianallstarz.com/profile/HaitianAllStarz

<a href="http://haitianallstarz.com/video/short-documentary-shades-of-the-border"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1512634519?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of inter-marriage, and how the country’s troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification. In Haiti, Professor Gates tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves’s hard…

<a href="http://haitianallstarz.com/video/short-documentary-shades-of-the-border"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1512634519?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />In the Dominican Republic, Professor Gates explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of inter-marriage, and how the country’s troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification. In Haiti, Professor Gates tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves’s hard fight for liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Empire became a double-edged sword.