Dominican Americans

Author : Ramona Hernandez,Silvio Torres-Saillant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313091445

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The Dominican Americans by Ramona Hernandez,Silvio Torres-Saillant Pdf

This profile of Dominican Americans closes a critical gap in information about the accomplishments of one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States. Beginning with a look at the historical background and the roots of native Dominicans, this book then carries the reader through the age-old romance of U.S. and Dominican relations. With great detail and clarity, the authors explain why the Dominicans left their land and came to the United States. The book includes discussions of education, health issues, drugs and violence, the visual and performing arts, popular music, faith, food, gender, and race. Most important, this book assesses how Dominicans have adapted to America, and highlights their losses and gains. The work concludes with an evaluation of Dominicans' achievements since their arrival as a group three decades ago and shows how they envision their continued participation in American life. Biographical profiles of many notable Dominican Americans such as artists, sports greats, musicians, lawyers, novelists, actors, and activists, highlight the text. The authors have created a novel book as they are the first to examine Dominicans as an ethnic minority in the United States and highlight the community's trials and tribulations as it faces the challenge of survival in a economically competitive, politically complex, and culturally diverse society. Students and interested readers will be engaged by the economic and political ties that have attached Americans to Dominicans and Dominicans to Americans for approximately 150 years. While massive immigration of Dominicans to the United States began in the 1960s, a history of previous contact between the two nations has enabled the development of Dominicans as a significant component of the U.S. population. Readers will also understand the political and economic causes of Dominican emigration and the active role the United States government had in stimulating Dominican immigration to the United States. This book traces the advances of Dominicans toward political empowerment and summarizes the cultural expressions, the survival strategies, and the overall adaptation of Dominicans to American life.

Author : Silvio Torres-Saillant,Ramona Hernandez
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004908258

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The Dominican Americans by Silvio Torres-Saillant,Ramona Hernandez Pdf

The first of its kind, this book presents an introductory profile of Dominicans as an ethnic minority in the United States.

Author : Nichol Bryan
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617849497

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Dominican Americans by Nichol Bryan Pdf

Provides information on the history of the Dominican Republic and on the customs, language, religion, and experiences of Dominican Americans.

Author : Nichol Bryan
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781616136710

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Dominican Americans by Nichol Bryan Pdf

Provides information on the history of the Dominican Republic and on the customs, language, religion, and experiences of Dominican Americans.

Author : Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040089064

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Dominican American Politics by Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco Pdf

In this book, Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco examines the politics of empowerment of Dominican Americans in the United States. Covering the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Jiménez Polanco provides a new analytical perspective to understand the political development of a growing ethnic community that has been historically neglected in the studies of Latino/a/x political development and whose peculiar characteristics represent a paradigmatic case that debunks pervading theories about immigrant communities’ participation and representation in U.S. electoral politics. Rich archival research and interviews with key Dominican American leaders and activists shed light on how some patterns followed by Dominican Americans in their political empowerment correspond to those of other Latino/a/x communities, while other patterns distinctly diverge from that common trend. Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians serves as a perfect companion for courses on Latino/a/x and Dominican studies and U.S. ethnic politics.

Author : Christopher Dwyer
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000016887

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The Dominican Americans by Christopher Dwyer Pdf

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Dominican Americans, their place in American society, and the problems they face as an ethnic group in North America.

Author : Jasminne Mendez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781518507199

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Islands Apart by Jasminne Mendez Pdf

Jasminne Mendez didn’t speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish-speaking culture at home and the American, English-speaking one around her. She desperately wanted to fit in, to be seen as American, and she realized early on that language mattered. Learning to read and write English well was the road to acceptance. Mendez shares typical childhood experiences such as having an imaginary friend, boys and puberty, but she also exposes the anti-black racism within her own family and the conflict created by her family’s conservative traditions. She was not allowed to do things other girls could, like date boys, shave her legs or wear heels. “I wanted us to find some common ground,” she writes about her parents, “but it seemed like we were from two different worlds, and our islands kept drifting farther and farther apart.” Despite her father’s old-style approach to raising girls, he valued education and insisted his daughters do well in school and maintain their native language. He took his children to hear Maya Angelou speak, and hearing the poet read was a defining moment for the black Dominican girl who struggled to fit in. “I decided that if Maya Angelou could be the author of her own story and rewrite her destiny to become a phenomenal woman, then somehow, so could I.” Teens—and adults too—will appreciate reading about Mendez’s experiences coming of age in the United States as both black and Latina.

Author : Yoku Shaw-Taylor,Steven A. Tuch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 074254088X

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The Other African Americans by Yoku Shaw-Taylor,Steven A. Tuch Pdf

Despite their growing presence, research on Caribbean and, especially, African immigrants has been scant. The scarcity of writings on these "other" African Americans contributes to the invisibility of these groups. The objective of this project is to broaden our understanding of these other African Americans. A focus on intra-racial dynamics among African Americans is important because of the ever-growing diversity of America's black population. The Other African Americans is an edited volume of original research that provides historical and contemporary information on African and Caribbean individuals and families. Each chapter addresses a particular topical area covering the most salient issues facing these immigrants to the U.S. today.

Author : Milagros Ricourt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317794899

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Dominicans in New York City by Milagros Ricourt Pdf

This volume forms part of the Latino Communities, Emerging Voices Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues series. This study explores the diverse struggles of incorporation pursued by immigrants from the Dominican Republic to one city in the United States- New York City. The Dominican Republic, the second largest country of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, was the nation that sent the most immigrants to New York City during the 1980s and 1990s. This study chronicles the lives of Dominicans in New York City: their difficulties, their courage, and their boldness to incorporate themselves into American politics.

Author : Jose Itzigsohn
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610446518

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Encountering American Faultlines by Jose Itzigsohn Pdf

The descendents of twentieth-century southern and central European immigrants successfully assimilated into mainstream American culture and generally achieved economic parity with other Americans within several generations. So far, that is not the case with recent immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. A compelling case study of first- and second-generation Dominicans in Providence, Rhode Island, Encountering American Faultlines suggests that even as immigrants and their children increasingly participate in American life and culture, racialization and social polarization remain key obstacles to further progress. Encountering American Faultlines uses occupational and socioeconomic data and in-depth interviews to address key questions about the challenges Dominicans encounter in American society. What is their position in the American socioeconomic structure? What occupations do first- and second-generation Dominicans hold as they enter the workforce? How do Dominican families fare economically? How do Dominicans identify themselves in the American racial and ethnic landscape? The first generation works largely in what is left of Providence's declining manufacturing industry. Second-generation Dominicans do better than their parents economically, but even as some are able to enter middle-class occupations, the majority remains in the service-sector working class. José Itzigsohn suggests that the third generation will likely continue this pattern of stratification, and he worries that the chances for further economic advancement in the next generation may be seriously in doubt. While transnational involvement is important to first-generation Dominicans, the second generation concentrates more on life in the United States and empowering their local communities. Itzigsohn ties this to the second generation's tendency to embrace panethnic identities. Panethnic identity provides Dominicans with choices that defy strict American racial categories and enables them to build political coalitions across multiple ethnicities. This intimate study of the Dominican immigrant experience proposes an innovative theoretical approach to look at the contemporary forms and meanings of becoming American. José Itzigsohn acknowledges the social exclusion and racialization encountered by the Dominican population, but he observes that, by developing their own group identities and engaging in collective action and institution building at the local level, Dominicans can distinguish themselves and make inroads into American society. But Encountering American Faultlines also finds that hard work and hope have less to do with their social mobility than the existing economic and racial structures of U.S. society.

Author : Carlos E. Cortés
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2475 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452276267

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Multicultural America by Carlos E. Cortés Pdf

This comprehensive title is among the first to extensively use newly released 2010 U.S. Census data to examine multiculturalism today and tomorrow in America. This distinction is important considering the following NPR report by Eyder Peralta: “Based on the first national numbers released by the Census Bureau, the AP reports that minorities account for 90 percent of the total U.S. growth since 2000, due to immigration and higher birth rates for Latinos.” According to John Logan, a Brown University sociologist who has analyzed most of the census figures, “The futures of most metropolitan areas in the country are contingent on how attractive they are to Hispanic and Asian populations.” Both non-Hispanic whites and blacks are getting older as a group. “These groups are tending to fade out,” he added. Another demographer, William H. Frey with the Brookings Institution, told The Washington Post that this has been a pivotal decade. “We’re pivoting from a white-black-dominated American population to one that is multiracial and multicultural.” Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia explores this pivotal moment and its ramifications with more than 900 signed entries not just providing a compilation of specific ethnic groups and their histories but also covering the full spectrum of issues flowing from the increasingly multicultural canvas that is America today. Pedagogical elements include an introduction, a thematic reader’s guide, a chronology of multicultural milestones, a glossary, a resource guide to key books, journals, and Internet sites, and an appendix of 2010 U.S. Census Data. Finally, the electronic version will be the only reference work on this topic to augment written entries with multimedia for today’s students, with 100 videos (with transcripts) from Getty Images and Video Vault, the Agence France Press, and Sky News, as reviewed by the media librarian of the Rutgers University Libraries, working in concert with the title’s editors.

Author : Himilce Novas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0452288894

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Everything You Need to Know About Latino History by Himilce Novas Pdf

The popular primer to Latino life and culture. Latinos represent the fastest-growing ethnic population in the United States. In an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this completely revised 2008 edition provides the most current perspective on Latino history in the making, including: • New Mexico governor Bill Richardson’s announced candidacy for the 2008 presidential election • Ugly Betty—the hit ABC TV show based on the Latino telenovela phenomenon • The number of Latino players in Major League baseball surpassing the 25 percent mark • Immigration legislation and the battle over the Mexican border • The state of Castro’s health and what it means for Cuba More than ever, this concise yet comprehensive reference guide is the ideal introduction to the vast and varied history and culture of this multifaceted ethnic group.

Author : Patricia Reid-Merritt,Michael S. Rodriguez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216135005

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Race and Identity in Hispanic America by Patricia Reid-Merritt,Michael S. Rodriguez Pdf

This book offers a historical and comparative overview of the evolution of racial classifications in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The Hispanicization of America is precipitating a paradigm shift in racial thinking in which race is no longer defined by distinct characteristics but rather is becoming synonymous with ethnic/cultural identity. Traditionally, assimilation has been conceived of as a unidirectional and racialized phenomenon. Newly arrived immigrant groups or longstanding minority/indigenous populations were "Americanized" in confining their racial and ethnic natures to the private sphere and adopting, in the public sphere, the cultural mores, norms, and values of the dominant cultural/racial group. In contrast, the Hispanicization of America entails the horizontal assimilation of various groups from Spanish-speaking countries throughout the Western Hemisphere and Caribbean into a pan-ethnic, Hispanic/Latino identity that also challenges the privileged position of whiteness as the primary and exclusive referent for American identity. Instead of focusing on one Hispanic group, ethnic identity, or region, this book chronicles the development of racial identity across the largest Hispanic groups throughout the United States.

Author : Max J. Castro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Dominican Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112787309

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The Dominican Diaspora Revisited by Max J. Castro Pdf

Examines the increase in immigration from the Dominican Republic to the United States from the 1960s through the mid-1990s.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1542 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435073579500

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf