{"id":257,"date":"2022-05-16T12:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/?p=257"},"modified":"2022-12-05T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:48:16","slug":"anti-blackness-in-the-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/2022\/05\/16\/anti-blackness-in-the-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Visual artist, poet, and educator\/activist Michelle Ricardo\u2013\u2013a Dominican native\u2013\u2013discusses what it means to be an Afro-descendant in the Dominican Republic and what she believes contributes to a culture of anti-blackness existing there. Through her work, she strives to assist in changing the cultural ideology of and within Dominicans to accept all parts of their identity. We go on to converse about a variety of topics, such as her life journey, feelings of displacement, and art as a tool for social change and self-expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discussion Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussion Questions<br>&#8211; Describe three (3) key issues that Michelle Ricardo discusses in this video interview about the framing of Dominican identity.<br>&#8211; What part of the video interview did you like the best?<br>&#8211; For what college courses or disciplines would you recommend this video interview? Why?<br>&#8211; Please share any takeaways or comments that you have about this video interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>KEYWORDS<\/strong>: Dominican Republic; culture; identity; visual arts; social reform; anti-blackness; beauty aesthetics<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collaborators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Faculty Mentors<\/strong>: Professor Jean-Yves Plaisir and Professor Aleah N. Ranjitsingh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Student Researchers<\/strong>: Tyone Campbell, Tyze Davis, Alexis Jacquet (volunteer), Lanue Ngwashi-Hibbert, and Madeline Rey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BMCC Humanities Alliance Fellow<\/strong>: Meagan Hammerbacher<br><br><strong>International Collaborators<\/strong>: Michelle Ricardo and Aniova Prandy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book Mentioned:&nbsp;<\/strong><em><u>La Mu\u00f1eca de Dieula<\/u><\/em>&nbsp;by Ana Belique with Illustrations by Michelle Ricardo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanwriters.com\/product-page\/la-mu%C3%B1eca-de-dieula?lang=es\">https:\/\/www.dominicanwriters.com\/product-page\/la-mu%C3%B1eca-de-dieula?lang=es<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BSAA In Conversation with Michelle Ricardo\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8TJ7A-c7GqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Video still depicting Michelle Ricardo during her interview<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual artist, poet, and educator\/activist Michelle Ricardodiscusses what it means to be an Afro-descendant in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5333,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dominican-republic","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/black-studies-across-the-americas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}