鈥淔irst Blacks in the Americas/Los Primeros Negros en las Am茅ricas,鈥 a bilingual archival resource developed by CCNY- based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, is now live.
The first digital platform in academia presenting a comprehensive history of the Americas鈥 earliest African inhabitants is now live. 鈥 in the Americas/ Negros en las Am茅ricas,鈥 a bilingual archival resource in English and Spanish, is the product of T九色视频- based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.
Led by Ramona Hern谩ndez, professor of sociology in City College鈥檚 Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, CUNY DSI is the nation's first university-based research institute devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent around the world. The core of its new resource comprises a collection of 72 archival document packages. They contain an equal number of manuscripts from 16th century La Espa帽ola, the Island now shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
The selected material documents in various ways the presence of the black-African population and their descendants that lived in the island-colony (the first European outpost in the Americas in modern times) during the first 100 years of colonization. It is the first platform to make this kind of collection of sources available on the internet to the general public.
鈥淭his platform, several years in the making by our institute, is another milestone contribution to the effort to democratize access to historical information that belongs to all of us who live in the Americas,鈥 said Hern谩ndez.
She headed the team of researchers and paleographers that developed the platform. It included Anthony Stevens-Acevedo, DSI assistant director and an historian, and Sarah Aponte, DSI chief librarian, who coordinated the team. Undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral researchers from CCNY and The Graduate Center, CUNY, also participated in the project.
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