Danilo Antonio Contreras is an assistant professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross, where he teaches courses on Latin American politics, race, ethnicity, and immigration in the Americas. He is currently completing a book manuscript on race and ethno-national politics in the Dominican Republic. His book advances an argument for why racial identity is of low salience in Afro-Latin American politics. Research from this project has been published in the Latin American Research Review. During the 2019-2020 year, he will be a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Afro-Latin American Research Institute.