AFRICANGLOBE - Like most Dominicans, Roque Feliz has skin that, while dark, is not quite what his countrymen would call "black." A heavyset man with full lips and close-cropped gray hair, Feliz says his mother told him never to marry a Black woman, even though his father was Black. “‘We have to refine our race,’ she used to tell me,” Feliz said in an interview.