The 17th Annual Dr. Donald H. Smith Distinguished Lecture presents Doctor Silvio Torres-Saillant, Professor of English at Syracuse University and the former director of its Latino-Latin American Studies Program. He is also the founding director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at the City University. Dr. Torres-Sallant has authored and edited numerous books, including An Intellectual History of the Caribbean. The title of his lecture is, “Dominican Blackness, Unforgivable Haiti, and Western Modernity.”