The article contemplates colonization's impact on the Caribbean, particularly focusing on Hispaniola, home to the Tainos and later African slaves. Artist Bony Ramirez counters the tourist-centric narrative through his work that embraces the complexity of Black and Brown experiences in this historical context. Highlighting the relationships between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the piece stresses how external forces of exploitation and colorism have fractured their shared history, while Ramirez's artistry captures the vibrant, often painful narratives that challenge reductive perceptions of the Caribbean.
Bony Ramirez's work complicates the outsider's gaze while centering the narratives of Black and Brown bodies in the Caribbean.
The fraught relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is shaped by centuries of colonial influences that perpetuate cycles of violence.
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