Black in Latin America Haiti and Dominican Republic: An Island Divided (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 56 min | Documentary

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Black in Latin America

Haiti and Dominican Republic: An Island Divided (Season 1, Episode 1)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 56 min | Documentary

Join Professor Gates as he explores how race has been socially constructed in the Dominican Republic and as he tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic in Haiti.

Director

Ricardo Pollack

Writer

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (as Henry Louis Gates)

Composer

Miguel d'Oliveira

Cinematographer

Graham Smith

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Updated Apr 30, 2011

Release date

Apr 2011 (United States)

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15 cast members

Name	Known for
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	12 Years a Slave (2013)
Guy Alexandre Self Self See fewer	Black in Latin America (2011)
Max Beauvoir Self (as Ati Max Gesner Beauvoir) Self (as Ati Max Gesner Beauvoir) See fewer	Achantè (2011)
Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique Self (as Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique) Self (as Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique) See fewer	Black in Latin America (2011)
Frank Cruz Self Self See fewer	Los Magos en el Sabor (1964)
Patrick Delatour Self Self See fewer	Allen Report. Retracing Transnational African Methodism (2016)
Bernard Diederich Self Self See fewer	Black in Latin America (2011)
Francois Duvalier Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Aristide and the Endless Revolution (2005)
Louis Lesley Marcelin Self (as Louis Lesley Marcelin) Self (as Louis Lesley Marcelin) See fewer	Black in Latin America (2011)
Roman Minier Self Self See fewer	Black in Latin America (2011)
Frank Moya Pons Self (as Dr. Frank Moya Pons) Self (as Dr. Frank Moya Pons) See fewer	Isla de Dos Repúblicas (2022)
Sabrina Maria Rivas Self Self See fewer	Black in Latin America (2011)
Juan Rodriguez Self Self See fewer	Black in Latin America (2011)
Silvio Torres-Saillant Self (as Professor Silvio Torres Saillant) Self (as Professor Silvio Torres Saillant) See fewer	Stomping on the Devil's Head (2011)
Rafael Trujillo Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	CBS Reports (1959)