I'm gonna get on my Afro-Latino soapbox here. A Dominican woman (or man) can be black. A black woman can be Dominican. Any person born in the Dominican Republic (or with parentage from there) is Dominican - regardless of race or ancestry. Any person of African ancestry is black, regardless of what country they come from. Now, as it stands, the Dominican Republic is a Caribbean country, populated originally by the Taino Native Americans, conquered by Columbus' Spaniards and populated heavily by the descendants of African slaves. The vast majority of Dominicans are of overwhelming to substantial to partial to slight African ancestry. About 85 percent of Dominicans have some African ancestry, and Dominicans range in phenotype from the blackest black to light beige/nearly white. Most have the characteristic African/Native/Euro mix resulting from five centuries of inhabiting the same island. But if you see a mahogany-skinned woman and she looks obviously black, her Dominican passport, Spanish language or affinity for certain hairstyles is not gonna change that. As well there is no such thing as a "Black and Dominican mix." Black is a race, Dominican is a nationality. You can be African American and Dominican, or Haitian and Dominican, or Jamaican and Dominican, etc. Anyone who has watched a Major League baseball game recently knows that there are plenty of Black men playing the game - just that most are Dominican (or Cuban or Venezuelan), and not African American.