Author: Ian Emminizer
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 153832704X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Located on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, the Dominican Republic is a unique place with a rich cultural heritage. In this text, readers will learn that the Dominican Republic has the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere, is the only second largest island in the Caribbean and many more interesting elements that have shaped the culture of its people. Stunning, full-color photographs accompany the text, bringing concepts into dazzling focus. This thorough investigation of social studies topics is sure to hold reader's attention while supporting elementary curriculum.
The People and Culture of the Dominican Republic
Author: Ian Emminizer
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 153832704X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Located on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, the Dominican Republic is a unique place with a rich cultural heritage. In this text, readers will learn that the Dominican Republic has the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere, is the only second largest island in the Caribbean and many more interesting elements that have shaped the culture of its people. Stunning, full-color photographs accompany the text, bringing concepts into dazzling focus. This thorough investigation of social studies topics is sure to hold reader's attention while supporting elementary curriculum.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 153832704X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Located on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, the Dominican Republic is a unique place with a rich cultural heritage. In this text, readers will learn that the Dominican Republic has the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere, is the only second largest island in the Caribbean and many more interesting elements that have shaped the culture of its people. Stunning, full-color photographs accompany the text, bringing concepts into dazzling focus. This thorough investigation of social studies topics is sure to hold reader's attention while supporting elementary curriculum.
Culture and Customs of the Dominican Republic
Author: Isabel Zakrzewski Brown
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Attention is also given to the thriving Dominican community in New York City, the "Dominicanyors.""--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Attention is also given to the thriving Dominican community in New York City, the "Dominicanyors.""--BOOK JACKET.
Dominican Republic
Author: Carlos Rosario-Ureña
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Learn about the amazing history and culture of the enchantress of the Caribbean. The history that makes the island nation a rustic yet beautiful and enchanting sovereign land, with its people, its music, its culture, everything. You will learn why the Dominican Republic is the Dominican Republic, the paradise of the Americas, the lover of the Atlantic and the majestic piece of heart in form of humanity.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Learn about the amazing history and culture of the enchantress of the Caribbean. The history that makes the island nation a rustic yet beautiful and enchanting sovereign land, with its people, its music, its culture, everything. You will learn why the Dominican Republic is the Dominican Republic, the paradise of the Americas, the lover of the Atlantic and the majestic piece of heart in form of humanity.
Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916
Author: Teresita Martínez-Vergne
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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 People
Author: Ernesto Sagás
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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 Borders of Dominicanidad
Author: Lorgia García Peña
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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 Cross and the Sword
Author: Manuel de Jesús Galván
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Colonial Phantoms
Author: Dixa Ramírez
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147986756X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147986756X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
If Dominican Were a Color
Author: Sili Recio
Publisher: Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534461795
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534461795
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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
Author: Frank Moya Pons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
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.