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Reflections on the 1521 rebellion: Teaching the history of early Afro-descendants in Latin America

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  1. See chart “Population of La Española, 1492–1606” (http://www.firstblacks.org/en/media/images/graph-001/).

  2. As of January 2022, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute is still in the process of reviewing the curricular guides with no specified publication date.

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The author would like to thank Ramona Hernández, Sarah Aponte, and Anthony Stevens-Acevedo for their invaluable feedback.

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From May–July 2021, I was a summer postdoctoral fellow researcher at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute where I worked on creating a K-12 curriculum for the First Blacks in the Americas website. Since the article is a reflection piece, I draw on my experiences with the website and creating the curriculum to inform my analysis. For transparency, I have made sure to fully disclose my relationship with the Dominican Studies Institute and the website within the article.

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Rodríguez, A. Reflections on the 1521 rebellion: Teaching the history of early Afro-descendants in Latin America. Lat Stud 20, 555–561 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-022-00374-3

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