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

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.