Author: Dixa Ramirez

Dixa Ramirez is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Her first book, Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present is forthcoming from NYU Press. Her work has been published in Atlantic Studies, The Black Scholar, Comparative Literature, Small Axe, Avidly, and in the Dominican media. She is currently working on her second book, Blackness in The Hills: Geographic Isolation and White Supremacy in Dominican and U.S. Nationalist Imaginaries.