Escaping anti-Haitinismo is the first chapter of my master’s thesis: Coloring the Colorist. This first chapter expands on scholarship regarding the role of anti-Haitinismo in Latinx and Caribbean countries. Through an ethnographic research analysis, I bridge the gap between anti-Haitinismo and Latinx/Caribbean countries through education, communal resistance, and liberation. This chapter focuses on uncovering what being Black in the Dominican Republic means. In an era full of unrest where darker-skinned individuals are continuously the victim of heinous attacks, I seek to uncover how the effects of anti-Haitinismo have permeated the island of Hispaniola and allowed for the displacement of many dark-skinned Dominicans and Haitian citizens that have lived in the Dominican Republic. The research project offers a critical analysis of the effects of anti-Haitinismo concerning education, gendered colorism, and social colorism, as well as an exploration of how anti-Haitinismo has made darker-skinned Dominicans and Haitians inferior to white-passing Dominicans in all sectors of life. By taking a qualitative approach through fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, I work to make scholarship more inclusive to all individuals of darker skin in the Latinx and Caribbean countries, strive to understand the barrier that proximity to blackness and anti-Haitinismo brings into countries and communities, and continue to work tirelessly to resist against the ongoing oppressions and disparities.