ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that advocacy for immigrants' rights and anti-racist, anti-sexist citizenship constitutes Black feminist practice. Therefore, in addition to the pain, trauma, physical dislocation and terror that La Sentencia has produced hundreds of thousands of people, a unique political space has opened within Dominican civil society and this space, it is argued, is Black and feminist. While echoes of the previous Black feminist formations are present in the contemporary movement, this second wave of Black feminist activism in the Dominican Republic (DR) differs in important ways. The historical evidence shows that anti-Black racism targeted cane workers – whether they were Haitian or not. It also shows that labor practices which were institutionalized during the United States occupation of both Haiti and the DR transformed anti-Blackness and anti-Haitianism from the ideological fodder of a small group of elites based in Santo Domingo into something else.
