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Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Monument in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasures

Jennifer Baez, “Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Monument in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasures,” Small Axe, vol. 66, 2021

This article examines the nineteenth-century Columbus monument in Santo Domingo. It specifically analyzes how the racialized and gendered body of the Native woman on the pedestal base (presumably Taino chieftain Anacaona), symbolically validated a nationalist discourse while arguably erasing the roles that Blacks and Indigenous peoples had played in shaping island life since 1492.

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