Historically, a product of the process of colonization and introduction of black slaves to the Spanish island, everyone assumes that Dominicans are racially composed of blacks, a majority mulattoes and whites. Some argue that Dominicans deny their African heritage or blackness, because many Dominicans do not self-identify as black, even though they have phenotypic characteristics typical of African or Negroid blacks. Do Dominicans really deny their blackness, but also their African heritage? What is the true racial identity of Dominicans? In this video you will find the answer.

One of the great characteristics of the Dominican nation is the miscegenation between black, white and indigenous population which makes Dominicans a nation of mixed race people in which the majority of Dominicans fall within the category of mulatto or biracial using a modern term. Dominicans by popular tradition are proud of their African, indigenous and European heritage and the diversity in cultural manifestations and religious syncretism is proof of this.

Something that everyone should understand, especially African American blacks, is that Dominicans do not use the one drop rule used by African Americans in the United States, mostly Dominicans use skin color, hair texture and eye color as a self-identification mechanism which It is a legacy of the Spanish caste system. In this video I am trying to analyze why many Dominicans do not identify themselves as black, but also the origin of the expression "I am not black, I am Dominican."

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