Books

Sarah Aponte
La presencia dominicana en el periódico Las Novedades, 1876-1918: De breve mención a propietarios en la ciudad de Nueva York
2022, 482pp. 

Published in collaboration with Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Dominican Republic. This book compiles and describes the writings of Dominicans published between 1876-1918 in Las Novedades: España y los Pueblos Hispano-americanos, a Spanish newspaper printed in New York City.  Las Novedades was founded by Spaniards and later bought by Dominicans who published the periodical until its disappearing. This book delivers the first comprehensive compilation and annotation of the contents published in Las Novedades under the ownership of Dominicans. Conceived as a cultural publication, Las Novedades ended up covering much more, and its contents offer a window through which one can visualize everyday-issues involving Latin American societies and Latinos in the U.S. in the first two decades of the 20^th century.

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Anthony Stevens-Acevedo 
La rebelión de los esclavos de Santo Domingo de 1521 y las leyes sobre esclavos de 1522
2022, 145pp. 

Published in collaboration with Instituto Superior Pedro Francisco Bonó and Fundación Juan Bosch. This monograph analyzes the rebellion of enslaved Black people in La Española in 1521 and the response to the insurrection by the Spanish colonial authorities in the form of ordinances specifically targeting the enslaved population. Both had no precedents in the Americas. The study is based on rigorous reading of primary archival sources from the period.

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Pedro José Ortega, Leopoldo Artiles and Carolina Armenteros, editors
Decolonialidad, emancipación y utopías en América Latina y el Caribe
2022, 330pp. 

Published in collaboration with Editora Global, Instituto Global de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales, Cátedra Unesco de Ciencias Sociales, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO). This publication brings together essays examining the main critical currents that describe Latin American thought in the twenty-first century. The essays explore Latin America and the Caribbean from various theoretical perspectives, including decoloniality, post- development, anti-utilitarianism, post-structuralism, post-functionalism, trans-modernity, emancipation, and liberation.

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Espaillat, Rhina P. and Sarah Aponte
Juan Pablo Duarte: The Humanist / Juan Pablo Duarte: El humanista
2015, 216pp. 
Published in collaboration with Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Dominican Republic. This is the first bilingual (Spanish and English) book containing the writings of Juan Pablo Duarte, the founding father of the Dominican Republic.

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Dominican Blue Book
2015. 114pp. 
The Dominican Blue Book features twenty-two outstanding and accomplished professionals with degrees from CUNY, the largest public urban institution of higher education in the United States, from which over forty-thousand people of Dominican descent have graduated at the time of the writing (2015). The present rendition of the Dominican Blue Book is an expression both of pride in the accomplishments of the Dominican people and of gratitude to the CUNY system, with hope and confidence that this mutually fulfilling relationship will continue.

Aponte, Sarah and Franklin Gutiérrez
Autores dominicanos de la diáspora: apuntes bio-bibliográficos (1902-2012)
2013, 430pp. 
Published in collaboration with Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Dominican Republic. Winner of the “José Toribio Medina Award” SALALM (2014).This publication is a reference guide that documents Dominican writers who have published outside the Dominican Republic from 1902 to 2012. 

Saneaux, Sully and Ramona Hernández
La República Dominicana y la prensa extranjera: mayo 1961 - septiembre 1963 (Desde la desaparición de Trujillo hasta Juan Bosch)
2013, 459pp. 
Published in collaboration with Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Dominican Republic. This volume details the global news coverage for the assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961 and the coup de'etat of President Juan Bosch in 1963.

Daisy Cocco De Filippis
Documents of Dissidence: Selected Writings by Dominican Women
2000. 251pp.
This English-language compilation of essays, manifestos, and pronouncements by Dominican women provides an unprecedented source for the study of Dominican feminism.

Frank Moya Pons
The Dominican Republic: A National History 
1995. 544pp. (by Hispaniola Books is available as a reader's copy in our library).
This first major history of the Dominican Republic available in English in the United States in over 60 years is a chronicle of events in Dominican territory from pre-colonial times through the 1990s.