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The analytic paradigms of race and nation have dominated scholarship on the Dominican Republic and have framed social and cultural analysis in ways that have limited the theorizing of Dominican materials to a narrow focus on identity. These gatekeeping concepts have been especially influential in shaping Dominican studies in the United States and in defining the predominant questions of interest in the field. This article assesses the conceptual limits of race and nation as persistent modes of analysis applied to the Dominican Republic and evaluates how these restrictive themes both shape and are shaped by conventional ideas about Dominican society. We argue for deeper engagement with homegrown scholarship and voices on the ground in order to move beyond repetitive and provincial concerns with “Dominicanness” and to trouble the far-too-common portrayal of the country as a novel racial problem. Resumen Los paradigmas analiticos de raza y nacion han dominado las cuestiones academicas sobre la Republica Dominicana y han enmarcado el analisis socio-cultural de la isla de manera que se ha limitado la teorizacion a un estrecho enfoque en la identidad. Estos conceptos barrera (“gatekeeping concepts”) han sido especialmente formativos en la creacion de los estudios dominicanos en los Estados Unidos y han definido las cuestiones dominantes en este campo academico. El siguiente ensayo critico evalua los limites conceptuales de raza y nacion como modos persistentes de analisis aplicados a la Republica Dominicana y analiza como estos temas limitantes forman ideas convencionales sobre la sociedad dominicana. Argumentamos por un compromiso mas profundo con la produccion academica de la isla y tambien por un compromiso con otras voces locales no-academicas para ir mas alla de nociones repetitivas y provinciales sobre la “dominicanidad”. Complicamos la muy repetida imagen del pais como un siempre nuevo problema racial que merece mas investigacion.

Caribbean Exceptions: The Problem of Race and Nation in Dominican Studies