Bryan Guichardo is a third-year Ph.D. student of History at The CUNY Graduate Center. His current project, The New Wave Movement and State Opposition in the Dominican Republic After Trujillo, is a study of the 1969 to 1986 far-left Dominican Nueva Ola (New Wave) movement, a configuration of activists and artists who sought to (re)inscribe blackness into the national consciousness after the dictatorship. Guichardo’s research explores how revisionist historiography was used as a counterhegemonic tool against the anti-black national narratives produced by the Dominican state. While the movement has often been understood as a failed project, Guichardo contends that the New Wave Movement was part of the organic evolution of black thought on the entire island. To support his argument, Guichardo will rely on archival sources found at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Archives and Library, and elsewhere in the Dominican Republic.
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