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| the dominican republic a national history: The Dominican Republic Frank Moya Pons, 1998 This work examines the distinct political periods in the country's history, such as the Spanish, French, Haitian, and US occupations and the several periods of self-rule. It also covers a socioeconomic history by establishing links between socioeconomic conditions and political developments. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Dominican Republic Frank Moya Pons, 1994-06-01 |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Dominican Republic Frank Moya Pons, 2010 Product Description: This updated and expanded edition extends the narrative from 1990 to the first decade of the present century, beginning with the collapse of the Dominican economy. In addition to the electoral fraud and constitutional reforms of 1994 and the return administration of Leonel Fernandez, the updated chapters focus on financial crises, the economic reforms of the 1990s, the free trade agreement with the United States, and party politics. They also take account of the recent Dominican electoral processes, the colossal and fraudulent banking crisis of 2002-2004, and the perpetuation of corruption as part of Dominican political culture. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 Teresita Martínez-Vergne, 2006-05-18 Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martinez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Hoping to build a nation of hardworking, peaceful, voting citizens, the Dominican intelligentsia impressed on the rest of society a discourse of modernity based on secular education, private property, modern agricultural techniques, and an open political process. Black immigrants, bourgeois women, and working-class men and women in the capital city of Santo Domingo and in the booming sugar town of San Pedro de Macoris, however, formed their own surprisingly modern notions of citizenship in daily interactions with city officials. Martinez-Vergne shows just how difficult it was to reconcile the lived realities of people of color, women, and the working poor with elite notions of citizenship, entitlement, and identity. She concludes that the urban setting, rather than defusing the impact of race, class, and gender within a collective sense of belonging, as intellectuals had envisioned, instead contributed to keeping these distinctions intact, thus limiting what could be considered Dominican. |
| the dominican republic a national history: History of the Caribbean Frank Moya Pons, 2007 Explores the history, context, and consequences of the major changes that marked the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing and the Great Depression. This book investigates indigenous commercial ventures and institutions, the rise of the plantation economy in the 16th century, and the impact of slavery. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Mulatto Republic April J. Mayes, 2022-04-19 “Impels the reader to not lean solely on the crutch of Dominican anti-Haitianism in order to understand Dominican identity and state formation. Mayes proves that there was a multitude of factors that sharpen our knowledge of the development of race and nation in the Dominican Republic.”—Millery Polyné, author of From Douglass to Duvalier “A fascinating book. Mayes discusses the roots of anti-Haitianism, the Dominican elite, and the ways in which race and nation have been intertwined in the history of the Dominican Republic. What emerges is a very interesting and engaging social history.”—Kimberly Eison Simmons, author of Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic was once celebrated as a mulatto racial paradise. Now the island nation is idealized as a white, Hispanic nation, having abandoned its many Haitian and black influences. The possible causes of this shift in ideologies between popular expressions of Dominican identity and official nationalism has long been debated by historians, political scientists, and journalists. In The Mulatto Republic, April Mayes looks at the many ways Dominicans define themselves through race, skin color, and culture. She explores significant historical factors and events that have led the nation, for much of the twentieth century, to favor privileged European ancestry and Hispanic cultural norms such as the Spanish language and Catholicism. Mayes seeks to discern whether contemporary Dominican identity is a product of the Trujillo regime—and, therefore, only a legacy of authoritarian rule—or is representative of a nationalism unique to an island divided into two countries long engaged with each other in ways that are sometimes cooperative and at other times conflicted. Her answers enrich and enliven an ongoing debate. Publication of this digital edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Black Behind the Ears Ginetta E. B. Candelario, 2007-12-12 An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic Eve Hayes de Kalaf, 2021-11-02 This book offers a critical perspective into social policy architectures primarily in relation to questions of race, national identity and belonging in the Americas. It is the first to identify a connection between the role of international actors in promoting the universal provision of legal identity in the Dominican Republic with arbitrary measures to restrict access to citizenship paperwork from populations of (largely, but not exclusively) Haitian descent. The book highlights the current gap in global policy that overlooks the possible alienating effects of social inclusion measures promulgated by international organisations, particularly in countries that discriminate against migrant-descended populations. It also supports concerns regarding the dangers of identity management, noting that as administrative systems improve, new insecurities and uncertainties can develop. Crucially, the book provides a cautionary tale over the rapid expansion of identification practices, offering a timely critique of global policy measures which aim to provide all people everywhere with a legal identity in the run-up to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García Peña, 2016-10-13 In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, silencing, and exclusionary effects. Centering the role of U.S. imperialism in drawing racial borders between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the United States, she analyzes musical, visual, artistic, and literary representations of foundational moments in the history of the Dominican Republic: the murder of three girls and their father in 1822; the criminalization of Afro-religious practice during the U.S. occupation between 1916 and 1924; the massacre of more than 20,000 people on the Dominican-Haitian border in 1937; and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. García-Peña also considers the contemporary emergence of a broader Dominican consciousness among artists and intellectuals that offers alternative perspectives to questions of identity as well as the means to make audible the voices of long-silenced Dominicans. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Dominican People Ernesto Sagás, Orlando Inoa, 2003 This work provides an annotated collection of documents related to the history of the Dominican Republic and its people. It features annotated documents on some of the transcendental events that have taken place on the island since pre-Columbian times. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Why the Cocks Fight Michele Wucker, 2014-04-08 Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight. In this book, Michele Wucker asks: If the symbols that dominate a culture accurately express a nation's character, what kind of a country draws so heavily on images of cockfighting and roosters, birds bred to be aggressive? What does it mean when not one but two countries that are neighbors choose these symbols? Why do the cocks fight, and why do humans watch and glorify them? Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus Why the Cocks Fight highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Imagined Island Pedro L. San Miguel, 2006-05-18 In a landmark study of history, power, and identity in the Caribbean, Pedro L. San Miguel examines the historiography of Hispaniola, the West Indian island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. He argues that the national identities of (and often the tense relations between) citizens of these two nations are the result of imaginary contrasts between the two nations drawn by historians, intellectuals, and writers. Covering five centuries and key intellectual figures from each country, San Miguel bridges literature, history, and ethnography to locate the origins of racial, ethnic, and national identity on the island. He finds that Haiti was often portrayed by Dominicans as the other--first as a utopian slave society, then as a barbaric state and enemy to the Dominican Republic. Although most of the Dominican population is mulatto and black, Dominican citizens tended to emphasize their Spanish (white) roots, essentially silencing the political voice of the Dominican majority, San Miguel argues. This pioneering work in Caribbean and Latin American historiography, originally published in Puerto Rico in 1997, is now available in English for the first time. |
| the dominican republic a national history: A Tale of Two Cities Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, 2018-06-05 In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. They toiled in garment factories and small groceries, and as taxi drivers, janitors, hospital workers, and nannies. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New York. A Tale of Two Cities tells the fascinating story of this emblematic migration from Latin America to the United States. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof chronicles not only how New York itself was forever transformed by Dominican settlement but also how Dominicans' lives in New York profoundly affected life in the Dominican Republic. A Tale of Two Cities is unique in offering a simultaneous, richly detailed social and cultural history of two cities bound intimately by migration. It explores how the history of burgeoning shantytowns in Santo Domingo--the capital of a rural country that had endured a century of intense U.S. intervention and was in the throes of a fitful modernization--evolved in an uneven dialogue with the culture and politics of New York's Dominican ethnic enclaves, and vice versa. In doing so it offers a new window on the lopsided history of U.S.-Latin American relations. What emerges is a unique fusion of Caribbean, Latin American, and U.S. history that very much reflects the complex global world we live in today. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean Luis Alvarez López, 2009-07-29 In this book, _lvarez-L-pez details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, which was an infant independent nation struggling to preserve its political independence from Haiti and from the expansionist policies of northern European countries and the United States. In 1861, the Dominican Republic was annexed to Spain. The Spanish empire expansionist policy sought to preserve Cuba and Puerto Rico, and the acquisition of the Dominican Republic strengthened Spain's hold on the Antilles Empire. Spain's policies strengthened the political objectives of the Dominican ruling class, which were political stability and control of the political power under a Caucasian empire. While both these objectives were achieved, the new colonial experiment was a total failure. The exclusion of the native ruling class, over taxation, economic exploitation, coercive imposition of the Catholic Church customs, prejudice against blacks and mulattos led to war, ending with the defeat of the Spanish Empire. This defeat opened a revolutionary cycle in the Spanish Caribbean. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Social Composition of the Dominican Republic Juan Bosch, 2016-03-31 Composición social dominicana (Social Composition of the Dominican Republic), first published in 1970 in Spanish, and translated into English here for the first time, discusses the changing structure of social classes and groups in Dominican society from the first encounter between Europeans and Natives until the mid-twentieth century. This influential and pioneering book details the struggles of the Dominican people as they evolved from pre-colonial and colonial subjects to sovereign actors with the task of moving a republic forward, amidst imperialist desires and martial ambitions. Juan Bosch, one of the most well-known and best-loved Dominican politicians and scholars, here sets out the important themes that define modern Dominican society. He tackles topics such as the inter-imperialist rivalry between France, Spain, England, and Holland and its subsequent impact on the Caribbean region, as well as the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic from 1916-1924. He also discusses the aftermath of political alliances between liberals and conservatives during the birth of the Dominican Republic, the Restoration War fought against the Spanish Crown, the role of the petit bourgeoisie and the hateros (cattle-ranchers) in the formation of a Dominican oligarchy, the emergence of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and the composition of society during his time in power. This translation, introduced and contextualized by leading Dominican Studies scholar Wilfredo Lozano, opens up Bosch’s work for a new generation of scholars studying the Caribbean. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic Jonathan Hartlyn, 1998 Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new explanation for the country's political evolution, based on |
| the dominican republic a national history: Foundations of Despotism Richard Lee Turits, 2003 This book explores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. It investigates the social foundations of Trujillo’s exceptionally enduring and brutal dictatorship (1930-1961) and, more broadly, the way power is sustained in such non-democratic regimes. The author reveals how the seemingly unilateral imposition of power by Trujillo in fact depended on the regime’s mediation of profound social and economic transformations, especially through agrarian policies that assisted the nation’s large independent peasantry. By promoting an alternative modernity that sustained peasants’ free access to land during a period of economic growth, the regime secured peasant support as well as backing from certain elite sectors. This book thus elucidates for the first time the hidden foundations of the Trujillo regime. |
| the dominican republic a national history: A World Safe for Capitalism Cyrus Veeser, 2002-08-14 This award-winning book provides a unique window on how America began to intervene in world affairs. In exploring what might be called the prehistory of Dollar Diplomacy, Cyrus Veeser brings together developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo, Brussels, and London. Theodore Roosevelt plays a leading role in the story as do State Department officials, Caribbean rulers, Democratic party leaders, bankers, economists, international lawyers, sugar planters, and European bondholders, among others. The book recounts a little-known incident: the takeover by the Santo Domingo Improvement Company (SDIC) of the foreign debt, national railroad, and national bank of the Dominican Republic. The inevitable conflict between private interest and public policy led President Roosevelt to launch a sweeping new policy that became known as the Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. The corollary gave the U. S. the right to intervene anywhere in Latin American that wrongdoing or impotence (in T. R.'s words) threatened civilized society. The wrongdoer in this case was the SDIC. Imposing government control over corporations was launched and became a hallmark of domestic policy. By proposing an economic remedy to a political problem, the book anticipates policies embodied in the Marshall Plan, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Dominican Racial Imaginary Milagros Ricourt, 2016-11-18 This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history? Seeking answers, Milagros Ricourt uncovers a complex and often contradictory Dominican racial imaginary. Observing how Dominicans have traditionally identified in opposition to their neighbors on the island of Hispaniola—Haitians of African descent—she finds that the Dominican Republic’s social elite has long propagated a national creation myth that conceives of the Dominican as a perfect hybrid of native islanders and Spanish settlers. Yet as she pores through rare historical documents, interviews contemporary Dominicans, and recalls her own childhood memories of life on the island, Ricourt encounters persistent challenges to this myth. Through fieldwork at the Dominican-Haitian border, she gives a firsthand look at how Dominicans are resisting the official account of their national identity and instead embracing the African influence that has always been part of their cultural heritage. Building on the work of theorists ranging from Edward Said to Édouard Glissant, this book expands our understanding of how national and racial imaginaries develop, why they persist, and how they might be subverted. As it confronts Hispaniola’s dark legacies of slavery and colonial oppression, The Dominican Racial Imaginary also delivers an inspiring message on how multicultural communities might cooperate to disrupt the enduring power of white supremacy. |
| the dominican republic a national history: We Dream Together Anne Eller, 2016-11-17 In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates Dominican nationhood to craft inclusive, popular histories of identity, community, and freedom, summoning sources that range from trial records and consul reports to poetry and song. Rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, Eller shows how popular anticolonial resistance was anchored in a rich and complex political culture. Haitians and Dominicans fostered a common commitment to Caribbean freedom, the abolition of slavery, and popular democracy, often well beyond the reach of the state. By showing how the island's political roots are deeply entwined, and by contextualizing this history within the wider Atlantic world, Eller demonstrates the centrality of Dominican anticolonial struggles for understanding independence and emancipation throughout the Caribbean and the Americas. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic Andrea Canepari, 2021 |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Dominican Republic Anne Gallin, Ruth Glasser, Jocelyn Santana, 2005 Articles and poems about Dominican Republic economic conditions and culture, with Spanish vocabulary lists and suggested activities for students. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Aquí and Allá Camilla Stevens, 2019-10-22 Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance explores how contemporary Dominican theater and performance artists portray a sense of collective belonging shaped by the transnational connections between the homeland and the diaspora. Through close readings of plays and performances produced in the Dominican Republic and the United States in dialogue with theories of theater and performance, migration theory, and literary, cultural, and historical studies, this book situates theater and performance in debates on Dominican history and culture and the impact of migration on the changing character of national identity from end of the twentieth century to the present. By addressing local audiences of island-based and diasporic Dominicans with stories of characters who are shaped by both places, the theatrical performances analyzed in this book operate as a democratizing force on conceptions of Dominican identity and challenge assumptions about citizenship and national belonging. Likewise, the artists’ bi-national perspectives and work methods challenge the paradigms that have traditionally framed Latin(o) American theater studies. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Colonial Phantoms Dixa Ramírez, 2018-04-24 Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted—miscategorized or erased—the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas. Through a variety of Dominican cultural texts, from literature to public monuments to musical performance, it illuminates the Dominican quest for legibility and resistance. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation Franklin Franco, 2015-04-24 Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros, los mulatos y la nación dominicana by esteemed Dominican scholar Franklin J. Franco. Published in 1969, this book was the first systematic work on the role of Afro-descendants in Dominican society, the first society of the modern Americas where a Black-Mulatto population majority developed during the 16th century. Franco’s work, a foundational text for Dominican ethnic studies, constituted a paradigm shift, breaking with the distortions of traditional histories that focused on the colonial elite to place Afro-descendants, slavery, and race relations at the center of Dominican history. This translation includes a new introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse University) which contextualizes Franco's work, explaining the milieu in which he was writing, and bringing the historiography of race, slavery, and the Dominican Republic up to the present. Making this pioneering work accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time, this is a must-have for anyone interested in the lasting effects of African slavery on the Dominican population and Caribbean societies. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Tropic of Baseball Rob Ruck, 1999-01-01 Looks at the history of baseball in the Dominican Republic and looks at the most prominent Dominicans to reach the Major Leagues |
| the dominican republic a national history: Before We Were Free Julia Alvarez, 2007-12-18 Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind. From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Dominican Cultures Bernardo Vega, 2007 While the Spanish brought their religion, language, values, and traditions to the island to form the cornerstone of the Dominican culture, a later influx of Germans, Irish, Italians, and Sephardic Jews from the Dutch Caribbean and Lebanon added further variety. Traditional histories of the island have long overlooked the influence of black Africans on the national heritage, although this rich cultural legacy is evident in many areas. And while there has been ample discussion of the indigenous Taino people, very few of them survived over the centuries, and they left a lesser lasting imprint, limited to agriculture, diet, language, and religion.This distinctive cultural amalgam provides the backdrop for this book, which has become a classic text in the Dominican Republic. It is the first book to acknowledge creolization as the dominant feature of Dominican culture. The contributors are Dominican scholars and journalists, and they have also served as diplomats, university professors, museum directors, and artists. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Dollar Diplomacy by Force Ellen D. Tillman, 2016-02-11 In the early twentieth century, the United States set out to guarantee economic and political stability in the Caribbean without intrusive and controversial military interventions—and ended up achieving exactly the opposite. Using military and government records from the United States and the Dominican Republic, this work investigates the extent to which early twentieth-century U.S. involvement in the Dominican Republic fundamentally changed both Dominican history and the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. Successive U.S. interventions based on a policy of dollar diplomacy led to military occupation and contributed to a drastic shifting of the Dominican social order, as well as centralized state military power, which Rafael Trujillo leveraged in his 1920s rise to dictatorship. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the overthrow of the social order resulted not from military planning but from the interplay between uncoordinated interventions in Dominican society and Dominican responses. Telling a neglected story of occupation and resistance, Ellen D. Tillman documents the troubled efforts of the U.S. government to break down the Dominican Republic and remake it from the ground up, providing fresh insight into the motivations and limitations of occupation. |
| the dominican republic a national history: If Dominican Were a Color Sili Recio, 2020-09-22 The colors of Hispaniola burst into life in this striking, evocative debut picture book that celebrates the joy of being Dominican. If Dominican were a color, it would be the sunset in the sky, blazing red and burning bright. If Dominican were a color, it’d be the roar of the ocean in the deep of the night, With the moon beaming down rays of sheer delight. The palette of the Dominican Republic is exuberant and unlimited. Maiz comes up amarillo, the blue-black of dreams washes over sandy shores, and people’s skin can be the shade of cinnamon in cocoa or of mahogany. This exuberantly colorful, softly rhyming picture book is a gentle reminder that a nation’s hues are as wide as nature itself. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic Christian Krohn-Hansen, 2022-05-03 The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have ordinary and poor Dominicans worked and lived in the shadow of the country's conspicuous growth rates? This book considers this question through an ethnographic exploration of the popular economy in the Dominican capital. Focusing on the city's precarious small businesses, including furniture manufacturers, food stalls, street-corner stores, and savings and credit cooperatives, Krohn-Hansen shows how people make a living, tackle market shifts, and the factors that characterize their relationship to the state and pervasive corruption. Empirically grounded, this book examines the condition of the urban masses in Santo Domingo, offering an original and captivating contribution to the scholarship on popular economic practices, urban changes, and today's Latin America and the Caribbean. This will be essential reading for scholars and policy makers. |
| the dominican republic a national history: A Political History of Spanish José Del Valle, 2013-08-29 A comprehensive work which offers a new and provocative approach to Spanish from political and historical perspectives. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Junot Díaz, 2008-09-02 Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Transnational Hispaniola April J. Mayes, Kiran C. Jayaram, 2022-05-31 In addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much more to the two nations' relationship than their perceived antagonism. Rejecting dominant narratives that reinforce opposition between the two sides of the island, contributors to this volume highlight the connections and commonalities that extend across the border, mapping new directions in Haitianist and Dominicanist scholarship.Exploring a variety of topics including European colonialism, migration, citizenship, sex tourism, music, literature, political economy, and art, contributors demonstrate that alternate views of Haitian and Dominican history and identity have existed long before the present day. From a moving section on passport petitions that reveals the familial, friendship, and communal networks across Hispaniola in the nineteenth century to a discussion of the shared music traditions that unite the island today, this volume speaks of an island and people bound together in a myriad of ways.Complete with reflections and advice on teaching a transnational approach to Haitian and Dominican studies, this agenda-setting volume argues that the island of Hispaniola and its inhabitants should be studied in a way that contextualizes differences, historicizes borders, and recognizes cross-island links.Contributors: Paul Austerlitz | Nathalie Bragadir | Raj Chetty | Anne Eller | Kaiama L. Glover | Maja Horn | Regine Jean-Charles | Kiran C. Jayaram | Elizabeth Manley | April Mayes | Elizabeth Russ | Fidel J. Tavárez | Elena ValdezPublication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
| the dominican republic a national history: The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa, 2002-11-09 Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Islandborn Junot Díaz, 2018-03-13 From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island—she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories—joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening—Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: “Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you.” Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us—to our families, to our past and to ourselves. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Introduction to Dominican Blackness Silvio Torres-Saillant, 2010 This study is a reflection on the complexity of racial thinking and racial discourse in Dominican society. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Confronting Black Jacobins Gerald Horne, 2015-10-22 The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers—France, Great Britain, and Spain—suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also had a profound impact on Haiti’s mainland neighbor, the United States. Inspiring the enslaved and partisans of emancipation while striking terror throughout the Southern slaveocracy, it propelled the fledgling nation one step closer to civil war. Gerald Horne’s path breaking new work explores the complex and often fraught relationship between the United States and the island of Hispaniola. Giving particular attention to the responses of African Americans, Horne surveys the reaction in the United States to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti, the splitting of the island in 1844, which led to the formation of the Dominican Republic, and the failed attempt by the United States to annex both in the 1870s. Drawing upon a rich collection of archival and other primary source materials, Horne deftly weaves together a disparate array of voices—world leaders and diplomats, slaveholders, white abolitionists, and the freedom fighters he terms Black Jacobins. Horne at once illuminates the tangled conflicts of the colonial powers, the commercial interests and imperial ambitions of U.S. elites, and the brutality and tenacity of the American slaveholding class, while never losing sight of the freedom struggles of Africans both on the island and on the mainland, which sought the fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of 18th century republicanism. |
| the dominican republic a national history: CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, 2017-04-17 THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater. For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, the CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel is the definitive guide to staying safe and healthy anywhere in the world. The fully revised and updated 2018 edition codifies the U.S. government's most current health guidelines and information for international travelers, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. The 2018 Yellow Book also addresses the needs of specific types of travelers, with dedicated sections on: · Precautions for pregnant travelers, immunocompromised travelers, and travelers with disabilities · Special considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees · Practical tips for last-minute or resource-limited travelers · Advice for air crews, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and others who provide care and support overseas Authored by a team of the world's most esteemed travel medicine experts, the Yellow Book is an essential resource for travelers -- and the clinicians overseeing their care -- at home and abroad. |
| the dominican republic a national history: Bachata Deborah Pacini Hernandez, 1995 Defining Bachata -- Music and Dictatorship -- The Birth of Bachata -- Power, Representation, and Identity -- Love, Sex, and Gender -- From the Margins to the Mainstream -- Conclusions. |
Racism in the Dominican Republic Abigail Smith - University of …
Dominican –Haitian relations; this will show examples of racialized governmentality. Debatably, the legalisation of imposed laws ‘in the name of national self-consciousness’ are in the case of the Dominican Republic explicitly ‘racialized’ (Goldberg 1992:557). Therefore, it will discuss the
Dominican Republic: Findings from a National Surveyl
Rico becoming the area of second highest Dominican concentration with 18 percent. At the same time a geographical diffusion of the Dominican population to other areas of the U.S. had taken place (Table l).5 Despite the magnitude of the Dominican flow to the U.S., few studies of the Dominican migrant have been undertaken. Our survey of the
ETHICS IN ADVERTISING AND MARKETING IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC …
history; 2) Dominican advertising practitioners are skeptical about the value of academic iii literature concerning the field; 3) Although there is some government regulation, for the
Ethnic Conflict, Statelessness, and Forced Migration in the Dominican ...
History and Current Status 5 Recommendations ... the American government has a national interest in protecting the human rights of displaced and stateless people in both the D.R. and Haiti. Additionally, the U.S. is a primary ... Dominican Republic, due to an agreement with the Haitian government, were allowed to employ ...
Dominican Republic - World Health Organization
The Dominican Republic is one of the most exposed countries in the world to disasters caused by natural phenomena and, as such, is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Natural disasters have had a huge financial impact in the Dominican Republic, since individual hurricanes have cost up to 14% of gross domestic product (GDP) in damages (2).
Dominican Republic: Crime, Security, and the 911 System
2 Nov 2018 · public sentiment, and increase security and stability within the Dominican Republic. By measuring public sentiment associated with crime and citizen security over time, comparing public trust in the 911 system to trust in the National Police, and uncovering the …
HIV/AIDS in Dominican Republic and USAID Involvement
Dominican Republic. (The Dominican Republic’s National Program for the Control of HIV/AIDS estimated that by the end of 2000, 150,000 to 170,000 people were living with HIV); • 5,120 children under the age of 15 were infected with HIV; • 4,900 adults and children died of …
Merengue: Dominican Music and Identity - Gettysburg College
Dominican Republic and Haiti share many cultural characteristics. Like merengue in the Dominican Republic, mereng (in Haitian Creole, méringue in French) is a national symbol in Haiti. Fouchard suggests that mereng evolved from the fusion of slave musics such as the chica and calenda with ballroom forms related to the French contredanse (1988: ...
The New Roles of the Dominican Armed Forces in the Dominican Republic ...
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC NATIONAL SECURITY PLAN . A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army . Command and General Staff College in partial . ... history, and language. Territory: The land and waters under the jurisdiction of a government. Sovereignty: The exclusive right to exercise supreme political (e.g., legislative, judicial, ...
Culture, Politics, and Baseball in the Dominican Republic - JSTOR
Baseball in the Dominican Republic by Alan M. Klein In examining baseball's cultural and ideological role in the Dominican Republic, it is important to consider the relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, not only because of U.S. domination of the nation and of the sport's North American origins but because the present and
Creating Markets in the Dominican Republic: Country Private …
Appendix A: History of Special Fiscal Regimes in the Dominican Republic 123 Appendix B: Mapping of Investment Incentives in the Dominican Republic and Comparator . Countries 125 Appendix C: Government Measures to Support the Private Sector amid …
Country progress report - Dominican Republic (the)
Does your country have a national plan for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV? Yes Target(s) for the mother-to-child transmission rate and year: 2%; 2020 Elimination target(s) (such as the number of cases/population) and year: 1/1000; 2020 Do the national guidelines recommend treating all infants and children living with HIV
REFORMING EDUCATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
stakeholders in the Dominican Republic; and group discussions with appropriate people in the Dominican Republic and Washington, DC. Studies that were analyzed related to the recent development of the Dominican Republic, the evolution of education in the country over the last decade, and the impact of education
Country Profile: Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola it shares with Haiti. At 48,921 sq. km, it is the second largest country in the Caribbean, after Cuba. The geography of the ... As of November 2015, the Dominican Republic National Meteorology Office …
History of Psychiatry in the Dominican Republic - UNIBE
Keywords: History, psychiatry, Dominican Republic. SOME GENERAL FACTS ABOUT THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC The Dominican Republic is located in the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti. ... A National Ten-Year Health Plan (2006-2015). Will focus on the future integration of mental health
Environmental Priorities and Strategic Options Country …
-1 - INTRODUCTION 3.7 The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean country with an area of 48,730 km2, a population of 8.6 million and a per capita gross national income of US$2,320 (2002). Sixty-seven percent of the people live in urban areas.
Development, Racism, and Discrimination in the Dominican Republic …
context of discrimination in the Dominican Republic. The opening discussion addresses the inter-relations of racialisation, violence, and power in the Dominican Republic. The discussion provides a tentative starting point from which to con sider how connected histories have underpinned contemporary examples of racialised violence.
Dominican Republic - UNICEF DATA
Dominican Republic to meet its 2030 targets. We bench-mark the Dominican Republic targets against where they stand today to show the potential effort required to reach its SDG goals. Figure 3 shows the average for countries for each of the 48 indicators to assess where Dominican Republic aims to be by 2030 (orange dot) benchmarked against where
Emerging practices of social work in the Dominican Republic
safety in the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic faces many challenges with respect to the implementation of policies and practices to protect children and women against exploitation. OAS (2003) reports the following among challenges to child protection work in the Dominican Republic: database systems that fail to provide information on
PERMANENT MISSION OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO …
worst economic crises in the history of the Dominican Republic. Our country saw negative levels of growth, a 100% devaluation of our currency, complete macroeconomic, political and social ...
Dominican Republic GHI Strategy - United States Agency for ...
MDGs provide the strategic direction for the Dominican Republic National Health Plan for 2006-15 which orients ... The complex relationship between the Dominican Republic and Haiti is reflective of a history of highly uneven development. There are an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Haitians, including documented and ...
Chapter 4. Dominican Republic: Government and Politics
The Dominican Republic has had a tragic history particu ... and the absence ofan effective national military institution, as well as by high levels ofpoverty and low levels ofsocial orpolit ...
FROM HIDDEN HAND TO HEAVY HAND: Sugar, theState, …
The Dominican Republic also joined the "relay race" of Caribbean sugarislands,butonlyas thissuccessionwasreachingits end.The history of Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic is a study in contrasts with that
Dominican Republic Epidemiological Fact Sheet - United States …
9 Oct 1999 · Assessment of epidemiological situation – Dominican Republic HIV seroprevalence information among antenatal women is available since the early-1990s from the Dominican Republic. In Santo Domingo, the major urban area, HIV prevalence ranged from 1 to 2 percent among antenatal women tested between 1991 and 1998.
MIGRATION IN SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, …
tion of the Dominican Republic shortly after it achieved independence from Haiti, and later President Ulysses S. Grant nearly succeeded in a project to annex the entire country. In the 1 890s a group of Wall Street chiselers, with connections in Washington, purchased the Dominican national debt. In collaboration with Dominican dictator Ulises
TOURISM IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Michael Porter
accounted for 7% of national GDP (Christie Table 2) and 35% of exports (Christie Table 4). Figure 1. The Dominican Republic Location (left image from wikipedia, right from CIA) Discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World, the country has a very rich history.
The Dominican Republic - Springer
history of democracy and democratic traditions played a signi˜cant role: the countr’politics consisted of “a constant struggle among changing alliances of civilian and military cliques (80).” As a result of this unsettled atmosphere, the opposition from “the countr’ty, the …
Of Standardized Student Measurements and Tests in the Dominican Republic
Of Standardized Student Measurements and Tests in the Dominican Republic Dr. Pedro Tavarez Da Costa & Fransheska Reyes Aria, B.A. ... An Acrid Criticism on the PISA Tests and of the OECD/ A letter that made History-----10 ... for the benefit of the Great National Entrepreneurship, also states “80% of 15-year-old students ...
Dominican Republic - apps.who.int
The Dominican Republic has an area of 48,661 square kilometres and occupies approximately two thirds of the island of Hispaniola (Santo Domingo), which it shares ... Maternal and neonatal mortality remain a national health priority. The main causes of maternal mortality are eclampsia, followed by sepsis and haemorrhage. Child
Dominican Republic: Human Rights Abuses by Police: Facts and …
Dominican Republic Population: 10.2 million (UN, 2010). VIOLENT CRIME ... (national police) Percentage of people killed by the police (calculated using figures from the Office of the Prosecutor General) 2005 2403 437 417 18.1% 2006 2144 295 …
Women's Political Participation in the Dominican Republic:
business and owned much of the country. He controlled every aspect of Dominican life - radio, the mail, the press, airport arrivals and departures, who got passports and who didn't-and rose to power through the U.S.-supported National Guard. Under Trujllo, the Dominican Republic became a nation of sycophants. Adulation of the "Benefactor of the
The Peace Corps Welcomes You to the Dominican Republic
PEACE CORPS/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC HISTORY AND PROGRAMS..... 5 History of the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic ..... 5 Peace Corps Programming in ... and national organizations. While Volunteers work primarily in communit y economic development, education, youth development,
of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic - JSTOR
The opportunity to study fire history in the subtropics exists in the Cordillera Central mountains in the Dominican Republic, where fires are common. To date, studies of fire history in this region have been limited to short-term vegetation recovery (Horn et al. 2001) and radiocarbon-dated sediments (Horn et al. 2000). The
Culture, Politics, and Baseball in the Dominican Republic - JSTOR
Baseball in the Dominican Republic by Alan M. Klein In examining baseball's cultural and ideological role in the Dominican Republic, it is important to consider the relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, not only because of U.S. domination of the nation and of the sport's North American origins but because the present and
Social Classes and the Origin of the Modern State The Dominican ...
The Dominican Republic, 1844-1930 by Emelio Betances ... as "people without history" and ignores the role of local class struggle in the ... "national" military leadership. At Santana's request, Spain annexed the Dominican Republic in 1861, but …
Social and Economic Impacts of the COVID19 and Policy Option …
soned policy intuition –coming from our rich history of ... national levels. Ben Bernanke, former Governor of the US Federal Re-serve, reminds us in his book The Courage to Act that during crises, people are distinguished by those who act and those who fear to act. ... The Dominican Republic has declared a state of emergency on March 19 due ...
Merengue Típico in Santiago and New York: Transnational
merengue. There is a separate category for merengue t?pico in the Dominican Republic's top musical prize (the "Casandra," their Grammy equivalent) and in Dominican record stores. Thus, although the two styles share a name and some basic musical features, they are consumed by different social groups,
Paul Austerlitz, Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican
gender, and sexuality," considering this Dominican genre in "its interplay at the national, tran-snational, and regional levels" (p. xiv). Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity is an obligatory item within the still sparse literature on Dominican popular music (see also important writings by Pacini 1995,
Tourism development in the Dominican Republic: An examination …
Coastal tourism projects are promoted in the Dominican Republic as national-level economic development initiatives that will create jobs for local residents, subsequently benefiting the households in these commu-nities. However, the economic benefits of tourism can be severely weakened as a result of the neoliberal
MUTUAL EVALUATION REPORT OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Recommendations and the level of effectiveness of Dominican Republic's AML/CFT System and provides recommendations on how the system could be strengthened. Key Findings - In 2014, the Dominican Republic conducted its National Risk Assessment (NRA) based on the 2010-2014 period. Through the NRA, the country made a radiography of its money laundering
Dominican Republic Americas Fixed-telephone sub. per 100 …
Dominican Republic The liberalization of the Dominican Republic’s telecommunications sector during the end of the 1990s was followed by an influx of national and international investments. Since then, broadband and mobile service penetration showed significant growth, but there are pressing needs in terms of infrastructure
Political Culture of Democracy in the Dominican Republic, 2010 ...
Political Culture of Democracy in the Dominican Republic, 2010 Democratic Consolidation in the Americas during Hard Times Jana Morgan University of Tennessee Rosario Espinal Temple University Mitchell A. Seligson Scientific Coordinator and Editor of the Series Vanderbilt University This study was done with support from the Program in Democracy and
Dominican Republic - London School of Economics and Political …
Climate Change Legislation – Dominican Republic 3 In 2012, the Dominican Republic launched its National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green Low Emissions and Climate Resilient Development. This aims to integrate climate change learning in key sectors to promote human and institutional capacity to
Dominican Republic Hand Surgery History - ifssh.info
Dominican Republic Hand Surgery History . 29.01.2024 . The so ciety was formed in march 1996. The hand club predating it was established 1995. The merger took place in 1995 with the name changed to the Dominican Society for surgery of the hand in 1996. the founding members were. in their totality fourteen, nine full members, one overseas and four
Cocoa Production in the Dominican Republic: Sustainability, …
5.1 Background on the National Cocoa Commission 67 5.2 Price setting 67 5.3 Producer and export prices 68 5.4 Units of measurement used in DR cocoa 73 5.5 Producer incomes 74 ... collaborator in the Dominican Republic, had passed away so this report is dedicated to him. Amanda Berlan Senior Lecturer in Ethical Business
Life in the Dominican Republic s Sugar Fields: Resistance from …
Dominican Republic and Haiti and how this distortion used for political power currently affects ... (Howard, 2007, p. 728), this national narrative is challenged as being a false one that became central to the Dominican identity through the dictator Rafael Trujillo, who ruled from ... “history of domination” between the two states and the ...
Chapter 12 The History of Bioethics in the Dominican Republic
the Dominican Republic was obtained. The National Commission of Bioethics, whose president then was Dr. Andrés Peralta, played a primary role in the negotiations and guarantees for executing the Master’s program in the Dominican Republic, since it was a private university and the PAHO was accustomed to working with public universities.
Appendix B - files.peacecorps.gov
return to Spanish rule,the republic was restored on August 16,1861.Both dates—February 27 (Independence Day) and August 16 (Day of the Restoration )—are Dominican national holidays.Duarte is still known today as the “father of the country.” Today,the Dominican Republic is progressing as a free and democratic nation.A large number of ...
Anti-Haitianism, Historical Memory, and the Potential for …
the Dominican Republic. Edward Paulino History Department, CUNY/John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Following the 2005 murder of a Dominican woman near the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Haitian communities were deported en masse and their homes violently ransacked by Dominican civilians seeking revenge. These
Race, Nationality and Anti-Haitianism in the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic revoked the citizenship rights of hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent born as far back as 1929, affecting more than three generations. ... chief among which are race and national identity. The international community and civil society groups, which have long expressed great
