Chapter Notes: Paulino, Dividing Hispaniola See main entry: paulino dividing hispaniola

Chapter Notes: Paulino, Dividing Hispaniola See main entry: paulino dividing hispaniola Introduction: Against the Fatal-Conflict Model Paulino opens by challenging the dominant historiographic assumption that Dominican anti-Haitianism is a continuous, deep cultural feature rooted in colonial racial difference. He targets specifically what he calls the "fatal-conflict model" — associated with scholars like Samuel Martinez — which treats hostility between Dominicans and Haitians as almost inevitable given their shared island and different colonial histories. Paulino's counter-thesis: anti-Haitianism was manufactured after October 1937 by Trujillo's regime as retroactive justification for a premeditated ethnic cleansing campaign.