The First Immigrant to Manhattan, 1613: Jan Rodrigues

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Map xvi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. European Encounters
7. The People Who Greeted Columbus 11
8. Religion of the Taíno People 17
9. First Descriptions of the Land, First Violence against Its People 25
10. Death of the Spanish at Navidad 33
11. The First Christian Converts—and Martyrs—in the New World 36
12. Founding Santo Domingo 40
13. The Indian Monarchs 42
14. Criminals as Kings 50
15. A Voice in the Wilderness: Brother Antonio Montesino 52
16. The Royal Response 58
17. II. Pirates, Governors, and Slaves
18. Las Casas Blamed for the African Slave Trade 63
19. The Slave Problem in Santo Domingo 65
20. Lemba and the Maroons of Hispaniola 66
21. Francis Drake’s Sacking of Santo Domingo 68
22. Colonial Delinquency 73
23. The Bulls 79
24. The Buccaneers of Hispaniola 81
25. Business Deals with the Buccaneers 84
26. The Idea of Value on Hispaniola 88
27. III. Revolutions
28. The Monteros and the Guerreros 93
29. The Border Maroons of Le Maniel 98
30. The “People-Eater” 102
31. The Boca Nigua Revolt 109
32. Hayti and San Domingo 115
33. Toussaint’s Conquest 118
34. After the War, Tertulias 122
35. Stupid Spain 126
36. The Dominican Bolívar 128
37. Arrogant Bell Bottoms 133
38. Dominicans Unite 136
39. IV. Caudillos and Empires
40. Pedro Santana 143
41. The Caudillo of the South 146
42. In the Army Camp at Bermejo 149
43. The War of the Restoration 154
44. Spanish Recolonization: A Postmortem 156
45. Making the Case for US Annexation 158
46. Dominican Support for Annexation 161
47. Opposition to US Annexation 169
48. Dominican Nationalism versus Annexation 171
49. A Lesson in “Quiet Good-Breeding” 173
50. Martí’s Travel Notes 180
51. Ulises “Lilís” Heureaux 183
52. Your Friend, Ulises 185
53. V. The Idea of the Nation: Order and Progress
54. Street People and Godparents 193
55. From Paris to Santo Domingo 195
56. Public Enemies: The Revolutionary and the Pig 201
57. The “Master of Décimas” 205
58. Barriers to Progress: Revolutions, Diseases, Holidays, and Cockfights 209
59. Food, Race, and Nation 212
60. Tobacco to the Rescue 215
61. Patrons, Peasants, and Tobacco 217
62. Salomé 225
63. The Case for Commerce, 1907 231
64. VI. Dollars, Gunboats, and Bullets
65. Uneasiness about the US Government 235
66. In the Midst of Revolution 237
67. Gavilleros 243
68. A Resignation and a Machine Gun 245
69. The “Water Torture” and Other Abuses 252
70. The Land of Bullet-Holes 260
71. American Sugar Kingdom 265
72. The Universal Negro Improvement Association in San Pedro de Macorís 269
73. The Crime of Wilson 271
74. VII. The Era of Trujillo
75. The Haitian Massacre 281
76. Message to Dominican Women 286
77. The Sugar Strike of 1946 290
78. Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation 296
79. Biography of a Great Leader 303
80. A Diplomat’s Diagnosis of the Dictator 307
81. A British View of the Dictatorship 313
82. Exile Invasions 316
83. I Am Minerva! 320
84. VIII. The Long Transition to Democracy
85. “Basta Ya!”: A Peasant Woman Speaks Out 327
86. Without Begging God 329
87. The Masters 332
88. The Rise and Demise of Democracy 335
89. “Ni Mató, Ni Robó” 341
90. Fashion Police 344
91. The Revolution of the Magi 346
92. United States Intervention in the Revolution of 1965 349
93. The President of the United States Chooses the Next President of the Dominican Republic 352
94. Operation Power Pack 355
95. Lawrence A. Yates 362
96. Why Not, Dr. Balaguer? 365
97. Dominican, Cut the Cane! 368
98. The Blind Caudillo 369
99. The “Eat Alones” of the Liberation Party 373
100. The Election of 2000 376
101. The Sour Taste of US-Dominican Sugar Policy 378
102. Leonel, Fidel, and Barack 380
103. IX. Religious Practices
104. Mercedes 389
105. Altagracia 393
106. The Catholic Bishops Say No to the Dictator 395
107. Liberation Theology 398
108. To Die in Villa Mella 403
109. A Tire Blowout Gives Entry into the World of Spiritism 406
110. Díos Olivorio Mateo: The Living God 411
111. Jesus Is Calling You 415
112. X. Popular Culture
113. Carnival and Holy Week 419
114. Tribulations of Dominican Racial Identity 423
115. Origins of Merengue and Musical Instruments of the Republic 427
116. Dominican Music on the World Stage: Eduardo Brito 431
117. “The People Call All of It Merengue” 435
118. A Bachata Party 439
119. The Tiger 442
120. La Montería: The Hunt for Wild Pigs and Goats 446
121. Everyday Life in a Poor Barrio 450
122. The Name Is the Same as the Person 456
123. “I Hope It Rains . . .”: Juan Luis Guerra 461
124. XI. The Dominican Diaspora
125. The First Immigrant to Manhattan, 1613: Jan Rodrigues 469
126. Player to Be Named Later: Osvaldo/Ossie/Ozzie Virgil, First Dominican Major Leaguer 472
127. The Dominican Dandy: Juan Marichal 475
128. The Queen of Merengue 479
129. Dominican Hip-Hop in Spain 483
130. Black Women Are Confusing, but the Hair Lets You Know 486
131. Los Dominicanyorks 490
132. The Yola 495
133. The Dominican Who Won the Kentucky Derby 500
134. You Know You’re Dominican . . . 503
135. Suggestions for Further Reading 507
136. Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 515
137. Index 527