In the first week of October in 1937, one of the most brutal events in the 20th century Caribbean occurred where an estimated 15,000 Haitians and Dominicans of Haitians descent were murdered under the orders of Dominican Republic president, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
Additional Knowledge
BOOKS
Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized The Caribbean by Peter James Hudson
Between Hate, Hope, and Help: Haitians in the Dominican Republic by Aida Alami
Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States by Leslie M. Alexander
Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola by Michele Wucker
The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction by Lorgia García-Peña
The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic by Megan Jeanette Myers and Edward Paulino
The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo by Lauren H. Derby
The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics edited by Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren H. Derby, Raymundo Gonzalez
The Haitian Reader: Culture, Politics and History edited by Laurent Dubois, Kaiama L. Glover, Nadève Ménard, Millery Polyné and Chantalle F. Verna
The Uses of Haiti by Paul Farmer
You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot by Freddy Prestol Castillo
FICTIONAL BOOKS
General Sun, My Brother by Jacques Stephen Alexis
Massacre River by René Philoctète
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Día
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
ACADEMIC PAPERS
A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic by Richard Lee Turits
Bearing Witness to Genocide: The 1937 Haitian Massacre and Border of Lights by Edward Paulino and Scherezade García
Both Sides of the Massacre: Collective Memory and Narrative on Hispaniola by Kelli Lyon Johnson
Genocide Next Door: The Good Neighbour Policy, the Trujillo Regime and the Haitian Massacre of 1937 by Eric Paul Roorda
Haitian- Dominican History and the 1937 Haitian Massacre by Richard Turits and Lauren Derby
Haitians, Magic, and Money: Raza and Society in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, 1900 to 1937 by Lauren Derby
‘How Lucky for You That Your Tongue Can Taste the 'R' in 'Parsley'": Trauma Theory and the Literature of Hispaniola by Mónica G. Ayuso
Mapping Hispaniola: Third Space in Dominican and Haitian Literature by Megan Jeanette Myers
ARTICLES
BBC: The Massacre That Marked Haiti-Dominican Republic Ties
Bloomberg: A 102-Mile Wall Is Separating an Island's Haves and Have-Nots
NPR: 80 Years On, Dominicans And Haitians Revisit Painful Memories Of Parsley Massacre
Windows On Haiti: The River Massacre: The Real and Imagined Borders of Hispaniola
POETRY
Parsley by Rita Dove
VIDEOS
TED-ED: Ugly History: The 1937 Haitian Massacre
FILMS
Parsely (2022) directed by José María Cabral
PODCAST
Lest We Forget: Everyone Except Haitians
Real Dictators: Papa Doc Duvalier - Haiti’s Voodoo-Infused Dictator