Peasant Resistance to State Demands in the Cibao During the U.S. Occupation

Abstract

Peasant uprisings and rebellions, sometimes leading to sweeping social change, have given rise to a vast literature dealing with the internal and external sources of the mobilization of peasant communities to change their economic and social conditions (Moore, 1970; Wolf, 1978; Paige, 1975; Migdal, 1977; Landsberger, 1978; Gonzalez Casanova, 1984-1985). No longer are peasants regarded as passive victims of abuse by dominant groups or at most capable of organizing against them only under some revolutionary (and generally urban) leadership that can arouse the rural masses. As Barrington Moore has pointed out (1970), peasants today are acknowledged to be agents of history capable of acting independently to better their living conditions and influence state policy. A number of case studies in Latin America exemplify the influence of peasant rebellions, uprisings, and mobilizations on state practices (Womack, 1970; Stern, 1987; Warman, 1988; Katz, 1988; Gould, 1990; Smith, 1991; Renique, 1991). Other works have likewise shown that even in the absence of rebellion peasant groups have used state institutions to wrest some power from the dominant, developing de-

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