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Raymondi, Mary Daly. "Latino students explore racial and ethnic identity in a global context." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2004.
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White, Carolyn R. "Dominicanidad: raza, religión, y poder en una isla dividida." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1276733973.
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Lyon, Jacqueline. "Inheriting Illegality: Race, Statelessness, and Dominico-Haitian Activism in the Dominican Republic." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3765.
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In 2013, the Dominican Republic’s highest court ruled to revoke birthright citizenship for over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent. Ruling TC 168-13 prompted dialogue about race and racism in the country, breaking the racial silence that accompanies mestizaje (racial mixture). Scholars viewed this ruling through the lens of “Black denial” whereby Dominicans’ failure to adopt Black identities, despite being largely afrodescendant, fuels the racialization of Haitians as Black. Less evident in examinations of Dominican racial politics are anti-racist and anti-xenophobic organizing. Addressing the gap in scholarship on Dominican blackness, this dissertation project adopts an ethnographic approach to examine how Domicans of Haitian descent, most notably through Reconoci.do, a movement of denationalized youth, as well as the natural hair movement, engage with race. As one of the few well-articulated areas of Dominican society engaged with blackness, the natural hair movement provides a useful counterpoint for examining the intersections between blackness and Haitianess. In this work, I propose that natural hair has the potential to destabilize Haitian racialization yet, concurrently threatens to decouple the anti-racist movement from Dominico-Haitian struggles. These intersections illuminate the complex relationships within the heterogenous anti-racist movement.
Through a historically rooted examination of constructions of race and nation in immigration policies, censuses, and national identity cards, this dissertation asserts that immigration policies were designed to benefit the dominant sugarcane economy at the expense of migrants and thus state efforts in 2014 to address indocumentation continued earlier discriminatory patterns, disproportionately impacting the Haitian diaspora. These practices are best understood as spectacles (De Genova 2013) that produce migrant illegality and, in particular, an inherited illegality for Dominican-born children that violates their constitutional rights to citizenship. Furthermore, the state constructs the population as non-black while publicly undermining anti-racist organizing and this research finds that activists draw on transnational images of blackness to challenge national representations of a modern blackness. Identifying mestizaje and the color continuum as obstacles to organizing, many activists conceptualize blackness as hypodescent, whereby any African ancestry engenders a Black identity. I argue that, while essentialist, this strategy broadens identification with Dominico-Haitians.
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CRUZ, DOMINIQUE CRISTIANA. "SOY AMERICANA. SOY LATINA. SOY NEGRA.: AFRO-DOMINICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY IN THE U.S." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612818.
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Latinidad, or the idea of a shared solidarity among Latinxs of all ethnicities in the United
States, is as diverse in reality as it is homogenized in mainstream culture. Under the wave of
a fairly unidimensional representation of Latinxs lies a vibrant undercurrent of literature and
media created by AfroLatinx
scholars. “ AfroLatinx”
1 works to challenge the hegemony of
Latinidad as a direct acknowledgment of the African diaspora and blackness. Even within the
plethora of textual production on AfroLatinxs,
there are gaps. Specifically, there appears to
be a gap of stories of second and third generation AfroLatinxs
who have always lived in the
United States and grew up in largely white suburban areas. In an effort to address this gap, I
will provide a history of race relations in the Dominican Republic to put my personal
positioning in context and celebrate my first chance in academia to learn about my culture, as
well as include my own personal narratives of interactions with race as a Dominican
American in the United States. Within this thesis, I will challenge the completely unnecessary
feeling of dueling I have felt between being black and Latina and explore why blackness and
Latinidad should not be mutually exclusive.
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Rodriguez, Collado Aralis Mercedes. "Images of invasions and resistance in the literature of the Dominican Republic." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5945/.
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From 1492, when the first European invaders set foot on the island known today as Hispaniola, until 1965, the year of the April Revolution, the multi-faceted repercussions of invasion have been a prevalent theme within the Dominican Republic’s literature. This thesis examines how the country has amalgamated a roller-coaster past to reflect this in its writing. It starts by evaluating the Spanish invaders’ extermination of the Tainos, its generational influence and the continued impact of Trujillo’s legacy, highlighting the issue of gender within the Resistance movement. It presents a rigorous analysis of writers’ opinions, as transmitters of peoples’ views – from the pirate attack by Francis Drake, to the use of theatre by Independence fighters as a weapon of propaganda against the Haitian invasion; the resilience of peasant-culture represented in the guerrilla movement against the first U.S. invasion of the 20th century; to the exposition of novels to depict a dictator as an ‘invader from within’ and the use of poetry to face the bullets of the U.S. invasion of 1965. By analysing the literary images, expressions, statements and social commitment of the writers throughout their work, this study shows how the various invasions which occurred in the Dominican Republic have been rooted in Dominican discourse. It emphasises that these very struggles against invasion are at the core of its vibrant literature, providing its silent themes and serving to illuminate both the nation as a whole and the individuals within it.
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Bortot, Giorgia <1994>. "The Long Shadow of the Dominican Dictatorship: Rafael Trujillo’s Reign of Terror in the Works of Julia Álvarez, Edwidge Danticat and Junot Díaz." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20429.
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Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina has been referred to as one of the cruelest and most brutal dictators of modern times. From 1930 to 1961, he established a reign of terror and recklessly ruled over the Dominican Republic through his absolute power and by murdering his political opponents and those who conspired against the regime. In October 1937, he ordered the systematic killing of thousands of Haitians who lived and worked in the Dominican Republic, in the so-called Parsley Massacre.
In this thesis, I briefly introduce the history of the Dominican Republic before and during Trujillo and I analyze three novels by the US-Caribbean authors Julia Álvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Díaz. Their works In the Time of the Butterflies, The Farming of Bones and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao focus on the Trujillo dictatorship in different ways, while maintaining some points in common, such as the authors attempt to create a new Caribbean collective memory about the Trujillo dictatorship. In particular, in In the Time of the Butterflies Álvarez focuses on the tragic story of the Mirabal sisters, who strongly opposed the regime and were murdered on November 25, 1960. In The Farming of Bones, Danticat analyzes the Parsley Massacre and themes such as labor and racial oppression in the Dominican Republic from the point of view of a Haitian housemaid. Finally, in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz investigates political oppression, racism in the United States and diaspora through magical realism, fantasy and Sci-Fi.
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Rojas, Danny J. GarciÌ a. "The Dominican Republic--Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) understanding the reasons why the Dominican Republic (DR) joined the CAFTA negotiations." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/4740.
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Approved for public release, distribution unlimitedhe specific decision, it is just as important to understand the domestic and international pressures the DR experienced over the last 35 years that influenced the preference. This thesis will examine the DR's choice through the overall framework of regionalization and how that influenced a proliferation of preferential trade agreements throughout the Western Hemisphere. The DR's economy has always been closely linked to the U.S.'s influence and policies, and specific changes in the global economic climate drove both nations to seek strategic partnerships with each other. The DR has had to make major adjustments to take advantage of potential economic opportunities, and this thesis concludes that the DR-CAFTA can be seen as a continuation of those efforts.
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Rojas, Danny J. García. "The Dominican Republic--Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) understanding the reasons why the Dominican Republic (DR) joined the CAFTA negotiations /." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Jun/09Jun%5FRojas.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Western Hemisphere))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Looney, Robert E. "June 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on 13 July 2009. Author(s) subject terms: DR-CAFTA, Western Hemisphere regionalization, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Central America Common Market (CACM), Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), economic restructuring, trade liberalization, nontraditional exports, Free Trade Zones (FTZs), Dominican Banking Crisis 2003-2004, niche markets Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-103). Also available in print.
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Ibanez, Lindsey McKay. ""Gentlemen, the Stomach Dominates the Economy": Small-Scale Dairy Farming and Community Well-Being in the Northwest Dominican Republic." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1336583573.
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SaÌnchez-Fung, JoseÌ R. "Essays on monetary policy in the Dominican Republic and Latin America." Thesis, University of Kent, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252591.
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Jacobi, Kara Elizabeth. ""They Will Invent What They Need to Survive": Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/229.
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"'They Will Invent What They Need to Survive': Narrating Trauma in Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction" analyzes novels by Octavia Butler, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, and Julia Alvarez through the lens of contemporary theories of trauma, tracing the ways in which survivors struggle to construct narratives that contain and make sense of their experiences. Many of the major theorists of trauma studies emphasize the impossibility of re-capturing traumatic events through creating narratives even while recognizing that the survivor's need to tell her story persists. In my project, however, I explore the ways in which the Kindred, Stigmata, Paradise, The Joy Luck Club, Sula, The Temple of My Familiar, and In the Time of the Butterflies extend theories that insist too readily on the survivor's inability to accurately or completely re-member by depicting characters who, despite difficulty, present narrative accounts of their painful memories. In my own readings of the texts, I emphasize that the complexities highlighted by these texts ultimately foster our deeper understanding of the traumatized subject and her attempts to empower herself through testimony.
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Postigo, Angela. "CONSUMING THE IMAGE: HIERARCHIES OF BEAUTY AND POWER IN US LATINO, COLOMBIAN, AND DOMINICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/27.
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This dissertation focuses on dominant contemporary depictions of women in order to investigate the related processes of producing and policing physical attractiveness and privilege in mainstream cultural productions. I examine how certain US Latina, Colombian, and Dominican female portrayals fit definite paradigms of ideal beauty and contribute to patterns of power within magazines, films and television, music, and literary novels. I explore the ways in which the majority of dominant representations in all three countries favor specific beauty ideals linked with an Anglo or Northern European archetype, thus limiting the acceptable model and excluding a great part of the racially mixed female population which fails to match this criterion. By studying the relationship between body image and messages that inspire anxiety for those women who fall outside of ideal beauty patterns, my analysis bridges sociological and anthropological studies within literary theories and visual culture and contributes to new perspectives on Latinidad and Tropicalism by including a trans-nationalistic approach. While much work has been done on the connection between the body and identity within the United States, scholarship within this area has been more limited within Hispanic literature and Latin American popular culture in terms of the role of power structures. While one perception of beauty is that it is merely physical, in reality racial classification and the recognition of “legitimate” beauty have tangible impacts on social matters such as access to employment, marriageability, perceptions of education, civilization, decency, and purity.
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Laurent, Patrice Nicole. ""THE LAND OF BULLET HOLES": IMPERIAL NARRATIVES AND THE UNITED STATES OCCUPATION OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 1916-1924." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/547952.
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HistoryPh.D.
This dissertation examines US media representations of Dominicans during the American occupation of the Dominican Republic between 1916 and 1924. It argues that American media images of the Dominican Republic changed to accommodate US government policy. For example, when there was interest in annexing the country in the mid-1800s, those who were in favor of annexation depicted Dominicans as white in order to demonstrate that they could be integrated into the United States. In the early 1900s, however, when the United States wanted to prevent foreign powers from intervening in the Dominican Republic, US media representations of Dominicans were overwhelmingly black to show the need for American oversight of financial matters. Whether depicted as black or white, this dissertation argues that the primary lens the US media employed to represent Dominicans was that of underdevelopment. Subsumed within this imperial narrative of underdevelopment were malleable depictions of race and, by 1916, a new element of humanitarianism that operated under the assumption that the Dominican Republic was underdeveloped and thus in need of American guidance. Lastly, this dissertation examines the shift in the US media in 1920 as American sources began to critique the occupation.
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Al, Shalabi Rasha. "Mapping the Dominican-American experience : narratives by Julía Alvarez, Junot Díaz, Loida Maritza Pérez and Angie Cruz." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19396/.
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Dominican mass-migration to the United States only started in the 1960s but Dominican Americans are now a sizable minority and in 2014 they became the largest Latino group in New York City. This thesis examines fictional works by Dominican American writers who migrated to the United States from the early 1960s to the 1990s which explore the predicament of Dominican Americans before and after the consolidation of Dominican-American communities. The novels under scrutiny here were published in English between 1991 and 2012 by Julia Alvarez (b. 1950), Loida Maritza Pérez (b. 1963), Junot Díaz (b. 1969), and Angie Cruz (b. 1972) and present us with characters whose search for a ‘home’ and for ways in which to articulate their individual and collective identity are shaped by continuous negotiations between the traditional values of their country of origin and the potentially transformative opportunities afforded by their new country. I will show how these texts powerfully challenge homogeneity, marginalisation, mainstream ideologies, nationalism, and discrimination while questioning the economic, social, religious, patriarchal, educational, and political structures of both the Dominican Republic and the United States in order to formulate diverse modalities of belonging to what Julia Alvarez has called a new “country that’s not on the map” and establish their own distinct position as Dominican American writers.
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Hoberman, Gabriela. "The Absence of Race in Democratic Politics: The Case of the Dominican Republic." FIU Digital Commons, 2010. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/151.
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This dissertation explores the relationship between race and democratization. Through the examination of the case of the Dominican Republic, this study challenges mainstream explanations of democratic transitions. At its core, this dissertation aims at calling attention to the absence of race and ethnic allegiances as explanatory variables of the democratic processes and debates in the region. By focusing on structural variables, the analysis shies away from elite and actor-centered explanations that fall short in predicting the developments and outcomes of transitions. The central research questions of this study are: Why is there an absence of the treatment of race and ethnic allegiances during the democratic transitions in Latin America and the Caribbean? How has the absence of ethnic identities affected the nature and depth of democratic transitions? Unlike previous explanations of democratic transitions, this dissertation argues that the absence of race in democratic transitions has been a deliberate attempt to perpetuate limited citizenship by political and economic elites. Findings reveal a difficulty to overcome nationalist discourses where limited citizenship has affected the quality of democracy. Original field research data for the study has been gathered through semi-structured interviews and focus groups conducted from October 2008 to December 2009 in the Dominican Republic.
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Frey, Diane F. "An institutional and compliance approach to labour standards in Central America and the Dominican Republic." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/218/.
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This thesis considers how to establish respect for labour rights. It aims to inform the analysis of compliance problems and create a diagnostic approach to implementing labour rights. The ultimate goal is to provide insight into the interventions necessary to progressively implement labour rights as defined in international law. The project creates a conceptual framing of labour rights by joining two theoretical approaches: institutions theory and compliance theory. Drawing on institutions theory from political economy, the thesis reframes labour rights regulations, as holistic institutions comprised of rules, norms and actual behaviours, the so-called ‘rules of the game’ in employment. In this context, problems in implementing labour rights are understood as employment practices that are embedded in a web of formal and informal rules governing work within society. Once, reframed in institutional terms, employment practices that violate labour rights can then be analyzed and shortcomings identified using compliance theory. Compliance theory is well suited to institutional approaches because it, like institutions theory treats norms, rules and behaviours as critical components in achieving compliance. The thesis integrates the framework into a diagnostic methodology and tool for comparison of labour rights compliance among the countries that are parties to the Dominican Republic, Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). It applies the methodology to two cases. The first case examines obligatory overtime and trafficking and the second focuses on freedom of association. The analyses are based on publicly available documentary evidence from distinct perspectives such as the International Confederation of Trade Unions (ICFTU), the United States State Department Human Rights Reports and ILO Committee of Experts reports and observations. The thesis concludes that the diagnostic methodology can help to uncover institutional patterns associated with labour rights compliance problems as well as problems with the international legal norms themselves.
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Paxson, Michael Andrew. "A performer's guide to the text and music of Dominick Argento's The Andree Expedition /." Connect to resource, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261075936.
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Moreno, García Barbara. "Le parcours poétique de Domingo Moreno Jimenes." Paris 8, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA081470.
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Cette these concerne la presentation d'un poete hispano-americain au cours de son evolution poetique: domingo moreno jimenes (1894-1986). Son oeuvre est consideree comme le point de depart de la nouvelle poesie de son pays, la republique dominicaine. Tout d'abord, ce poete fut influence par le mouvement modernismo, il cultiva alors les differentes formes canoniques et mania les vers avec efficacite. En 1921 moreno, mecontent de la rhetorique classique, crea le postumismo qui fut le premier mouvement poetique de la litterature dominicaine. Ce mouvement proclama la liberte complete du vers (vers-librisme) et revendiqua les themes et motifs propres au terroir et a la culture dominicaine. Le posthumisme" est un postmodernismo. Moreno, ainsi que les poetes mariano lebron savinon et alberto baeza flores participerent a un nouvel essai poetique en 1943: los trialogos. Il s'agissait de traiter la poesie en tant que matiere tridimensionnelle", exercice proche d'une experience surrealiste. La poesie de moreno evolue ensuite vers un discours ontologique et metaphysique revelant le poete-philosophe. Les themes de sa poesie sont: dieu, l'esprit, le sens de l'existence, l'au-dela, la mort. Lepoete s'interroge, reflechit, medite. Ses vers auront souvent, jusqu'a sa mort parvenue en 1986, un ton prophetique et oraculaire, sentencieux et mystique.
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McVicar, Michael Joseph. "Reconstructing America: Religion, American Conservatism, and the Political Theology of Rousas John Rushdoony." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284987530.
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Morais, Juliana Borges Oliveira de. "The representation of home in the novel Geographies of home, by the Dominican-American writer Loida Maritza Pérez." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-824JY7.
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Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home portrays a Dominican family who has emigrated to the United States in an attempt to escape from poverty and the lack of opportunities in the Dominican Republic, an aftermath of Rafael Trujillo's thirty-one years of dictatorship in that country. The family lives in extreme poverty while in the Dominican Republic. Emigration becomes, then, a possibility of hope, of a better life condition. However, even after years of settlement in the United States, an idea recurrently haunts the members of this family: home. Whether in the form of a longing, a fear, and/or a memory, home seems to be presented and re-presented in numerous ways by the characters, especially the women, which are the objects of this analysis. I have chosen to investigate how the concept of home is represented in the novel in order to find out whether there would be a single notion of home shared by all characters, as the title suggests (since 'home' is used in the singular), or rather if the novel uncovers distinct notions of home for each of them. My hypothesis is that not only there are various homes, opposed to a single one, in the novel, but also that there are different homes even for each character. The narrative shifts perspectives, each chapter focusing on the perspective of one of the four women characters: Aurelia, Iliana, Rebecca or Marina. This way it is possible to look at the same episode from different angles, crisscrossing information. It is my assumption that whereas a traditional view on home stabilizes and fixes its notion, these characters in Geographies of Home offer a counterview, conveying the idea that home is a fluid concept, being a process rather than a product in their lives.xxx
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Miner, Jenny. "Migration for Education: Haitian University Students in the Dominican Republic." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/89.
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Haitian university students represent a part of the increasing diversity of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. Using an ethnographic approach, I explore university students’ motivations for studying in the Dominican Republic, their experiences at Dominican universities and in Dominican society, Haitian student organizations, and their future plans. Additionally, I focus on Haitian students’ experiences with discrimination and how they relate to other Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. I find that most students come to the Dominican Republic due to the difficulty of gaining entrance to affordable Haitian universities and logistical convenience. The university is a unique setting where Haitian and Dominican students are clearly peers, which results in increased interactions between the two groups and decreased discrimination towards Haitian students. However, Haitian students remain a relatively isolated group within the university and in the larger Dominican society. Many students reported experiencing discrimination, although students identified class, rather than race or nationality, as the main reason for discrimination. Furthermore, I focused on the role of language in migrants’ experiences. I found that while a high command of Spanish allowed migrants to avoid identification as Haitian and subsequent discrimination, Kreyòl was used as a resource to create solidarity and maintain cultural ties to Haiti. My research suggests that it is important to keep in mind the distinct notions of race and nationality in Haiti and in the Dominican Republic when considering contemporary struggles for the rights of Haitian migrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic.
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Guilamo, Daly. "Fear of a Black Country: Dominican Anti-Haitianism, the Denial of Racism, and Contradictions in the Aftermath of the 2010 Earthquake." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/230709.
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African American StudiesPh.D.
The Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti are two Caribbean countries that share the same island, Hispaniola, and a tumultuous history. Both countries' historical relationship is ridden with geopolitical conflict stemming from the DR creating an unwelcoming environment for Haitian immigrants. This dissertation is a interdisciplinary study that investigates how Dominican thinkers play a significant role in creating the intellectual impetus that encourages anti-Haitian sentiment throughout Dominican society in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. In this dissertation I examine how Dominican anti-Haitian ideals, as delineated by Dominican nationalist intellectuals, that I refer to as Defensive Dominican Nationalists (DDN), continue to resonate amongst "everyday" Dominicans and within the recently amended 2010 Dominican constitution that denies citizenship to Dominicans of Haitian descent in the aftermath of the earthquake. I conclude that although the new constitution reinforces the anti-Haitian ideals espoused by conservative Dominican elite thinkers, "everyday" Dominicans, in the post 2010 earthquake timeframe, rejected some of the DDN's beliefs concerning the true definition of Dominican-ness and how the Dominican government had recently amended its constitution. My methodology, consists of literary analysis, a survey, and focus group interviews conducted on both Dominicans and Haitians residing in the DR. Unexpectedly, I found that documented Haitians and second generation Dominicans of Haitian descent actually oppose the new influx of Haitian immigrants adopting some of the anti-Haitian attitudes of the DDN. In essence, this dissertation diagnoses a racial problem emanating from geopolitical conflict and the tumultuous history between Dominican and Haitian society.
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Lomas, Donna Louise. "Canada’s evolution towards dominion status : an analysis of American-Canadian relations, 1919-1924." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25458.
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The purpose of this study has been to address an imbalance existing in the historiography relating to American-Canadian relations in the period between 1919-1924. Relying primarily on American sources, this study has attempted to argue that the Canadian government had a unique opportunity to inititiate and execute an independent foreign policy by exploiting her position within the British Empire as well as her close relationship with the United States. In contrast to a number of Canadian studies which have argued that the United States impeded Canada's diplomatic growth in the post World War I period, this work maintains that the United States tried to encourage Canada to assume a more autonomous position because it was in America's interest to do so. Canada's similar attitudes with the United States towards the questions of the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, Asian immigration and Article Ten in the League of Nations' Covenant convinced the United States that the Canadian government was potentially useful to the American government in helping to protect its international interests in institutions where it was not represented. The evidence presented in this study maintains that it was the Canadian and British governments that were reluctant to carry out the final steps of appointing a separate Canadian representative to Washington in the early 1920s. As a result, Canada lost her opportunity to establish an independent
policy because the United States found alternative methods of protecting its international interests.Arts, Faculty of
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Vazquez, Christopher W. "Un Estudio de la Pedagogía de Música en la Organización Niños con una Esperanza." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303341537.
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Santana, Yudelka. "Changes and Challenges in Diplomacy: An Evaluation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Dominican Republic." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6379.
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This research analyzes why diplomacy is failing in the Dominican Republic. In this thesis, I describe how Dominicans construct their foreign affairs, and the limitations that diplomacy has had in the country. In order to achieve these goals, I have analyzed official documents such as the 2013 and 2015 payrolls of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and legal documents including Article 146 from the Constitution, Organic Law 314 from 1964, and the Protocol of Transparency and Institutions. I argue that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Dominican Republic lacks seriousness and is characterized by the following variables: (1) patronage, (2) corruption, and (3) the systematic violation of Dominican law. The thesis emphasizes how these variables have had a tremendous impact on the exercise of diplomacy. The research analyzes the reaction of the Dominican state and its citizens and how the nation responds to criticisms by the international community. Dominican citizens think that the opinion of international media is a campaign against their country. The implications of this false public perception is an intense nationalism, and the government encourages this. The true problem, as this thesis demonstrates, is institutional weakness. The government uses intense and widespread nationalism to hide institutional weakness and state corruption. After exploring this dialogue between the government, citizens and international media, I move forward framing concepts such as soft power and new public diplomacy to reinforce the importance of listening to foreign publics. In addition I explain why the country needs to change the traditional approach to foreign affairs. The adoption of a new public diplomacy is required to establish credibility and the integration between state, citizens and international publics.
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Mota, Cáceres Ana Maritza de la. "La religion populaire en République dominicaine à travers l'histoire : XVIIIe-XXe siècles." Bordeaux 3, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985BOR30036.
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López, Nancy P. "Latin American Women's Perceptions of Divorce: An Exploratory Study of the Situation and Image of Divorced Women in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41283.
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The identity of Latin America is composed of elements inherited from Europe, Asia and Africa. This identity has been defined with a series of images, roles, behaviors and rules created to maintain a particular unification among the citizens of these societies. Cultural ideologies involving marriage, separation and divorce have been subjected to historical changes. Divorce in Latin America typically has had a negative connotation and communities have considered divorced women as outcasts. The purpose of this study is to examine Puerto Rican and Dominican women's perception of divorce with particular emphasis on divorced women's image and experience in these countries. There are similarities and differences between the two countries based on geographical, cultural, historical, economic and legal issues. Due to the cultural presence of the United States in Puerto Rico, many issues now separate the two countries. I consider this "duality" (Traditional/Latin American and Westernized/American) to be an interesting context for exploration particularly as it relates to women's perception of divorce.Master of Arts
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McCarthy, Kevin Thomas. "A geochemical and spatial characterization of the Champagne Hot Springs shallow hydrothermal vent field, Dominica, Lesser Antilles." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000446.
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Long, Kathleen. "Proclaiming truth through nonviolent dissent working to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Read, Madeleine Erica. "Misrepresenting the Shoah in American Film." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7214.
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How should we, Americans, confront our complicity in reproducing the Shoah? For complicit we are, if consumerism is any metric: Steven Spielberg<'>s 1993 film Schindler<'>s List had grossed $321 million as of 2012; more than 40 million people have made the pilgrimage to the sacred US Holocaust Museum; at last count, The Diary of Anne Frank had sold 30 million copies. These numbers are stale staples in the debate over the ethics of Shoah representation, of course, but they bear out the skepticism of critics who have questioned American Holocaust consumer culture. And consumerism is only the first of many such ethical quandaries, which include how to deal with the trauma that audiences experience upon viewing Holocaust films and what happens when secondary witnesses overidentify with Holocaust victims.This paper takes up an unusual form of Holocaust art: misrepresentative film. I discuss two films, Quentin Tarantino<'>s Inglourious Basterds and Wes Anderson<'>s The Grand Budapest Hotel, to argue that intentional misrepresentations not only call attention to the pitfalls of traditional representation but also encourage audiences to work through the transhistorical trauma of the Shoah. Released in 2009, Tarantino<'>s was perhaps unique in cinema for its radical alteration of history, intended to give audiences the sheer pleasure of seeing the Nazi regime go up, literally, in flames. Though the film is undoubtedly a revenge fantasy that, using Dominick LaCapra<'>s terms, embodies <"e>acting out€ in response to historical trauma, it does so by flipping the traditional narrative: unlike most depictions of the Shoah, it complicates the victim-perpetrator binary, identifies audiences with the transgressors, and constantly calls attention to its own fictionality. Movies like The Grand Budapest Hotel are evidence that Tarantino really did shatter the constraints of the genre. Basterds certainly makes no effort toward historical accuracy, but since its appeal depends on the audience<'>s awareness of its inaccuracies, Tarantino is still elbow-deep in real history. Anderson is not. Budapest is a troubled film, haunted by invasions, wars, arrests, and displays of arbitrary power, many of which recall the Third Reich. The function of these ominous forces, however, is not to offer commentary on the Shoah but simply to recreate the illusory world of Stefan Zweig, on whose writings it was based. In producing a movie about Nazi-occupied Europe in which the troubles of the period are relegated mostly to the background, Anderson furthers the deconstruction of the Holocaust film genre, raising the possibility that such films can be historically serious without being bound by restrictive rules.
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Mortensen, Kelsy Ann. "De-Centering the Dictator: Trujillo Narratives and Articulating Resistance in Angie Cruz's Let It Rain Coffee and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3220.
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Narratives of resisting the Trujillo regime are so prevalent in Dominican-American literature that it seems Dominican-American authors must write about Trujillo to be deemed authentically Dominican-American. Within these Trujillo narratives there seems to be two main ways to talk about resistance. “The resistance,” an organized entity that actively and consciously opposes the Trujillo regime, can be seen in stories like those told about the Mirabal sisters. The other resistance narrates how characters capitalize on opportunities to disrupt business or political functions, thus disrupting the Trujillo machine. This resistance works much like Ben Highmore's explanation of de Certeau's resistance in that “it limits flows and dissipates energies” (104). Characters from the socio-economic lower-class typically use this type of resistance because they are not recognized by nor allowed direct access to the regime. My thesis focuses on the latter type of resistance through my study of Angie Cruz's Let It Rain Coffee and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Both authors narrate instances of unrecognized resistance against Trujillo, but they also articulate modern resistance to economic, racial, and gender pressures, such as materialism and hyper-masculinity, through Trujillo narratives. While these narratives create a space for Dominican-Americans of different gender, class, and race, they also create Trujillo as a marker of Dominican literature, perpetuating the idea of Trujillo as inextricably connected to Dominican identity and obfuscating more complex issues of race and gender in Dominican culture.
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Lantzy, Leah. "La influencia del sueño americano en la inmigración latina." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1332186360.
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Montás, Lucía M. "LA CIUDAD DE LAS LETRADAS: REESCRIBIENDO SANTO DOMINGO EN LA NARRATIVA FEMENINA URBANA DOMINICANA DEL NUEVO MILENIO." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/36.
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In the last few decades, Dominican female writers have contributed significantly to the literary representation of the city of Santo Domingo and urban life. This dissertation studies how these female writers produce a cultural paradigm for criticizing the urban crisis in the Dominican Republic that at times is at odds with much narrative written by men and with key concepts in Urban Theory that are taken for granted. The authors I study, Ángela Hernández, Emilia Pereyra, Emelda Ramos, Aurora Arias and Rita Indiana Hernández, understand the city and redefine the urban model by expressing their dissatisfaction in the civilizing and modernizing potential of urban space in their texts. I specifically analyze novels and short stories through a reinterpretation of Henri Lefebvre’s concept of “the Right to the City” that considers issues such as gender, race and identity by using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that includes Geography, Urban Studies, Feminism, Queer Studies and Sociology.
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Orama, Mariella. "La dictadura desde la escritura femenina de Carmen Martín Gaite, Julia álvarez e Isabel Allende." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4927.
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Cerda, Álvarez Valeria, and Otero Carolina Torrealba. "La apatrida como vulneración a los derechos consagrados en la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos : análisis del caso Yean y Bosico contra República Dominicana." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/144859.
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Memoria (licenciado en ciencias jurídicas y sociales)La presente memoria de prueba es un trabajo de investigación que tiene por objetivo principal el estudio de la apatridia y su interacción con los derechos fundamentales. Consta de tres capítulos, el primero dedicado a la nacionalidad como principal derecho amenazado por esta condición, ostentada por un individuo. Un segundo capítulo se ocupa a la apatridia en sí, revisándose sus aspectos generales, sus causas, sus consecuencias, su tratamiento en instrumentos internacionales y la acción de la ACNUR como organismo precursor de la protección de los derechos de los apátridas. Para finalizar, esta investigación cuenta con un capitulo que contiene un análisis del caso Niñas Yean y Bosico contra República Dominicana, de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, caso emblemático en nuestra región, referido a la apatridia y la vulneración de garantías fundamentales.
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Slattery, Samuel Aldred. "Subjects or Rebels: The Dominion of New England and the Roots of Anglo-American Conflict / The Right to Fortifications: American Communities and the Politics of Harbor Defense: 1794-1812." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068565.
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ABSTRACT Subjects or Rebels: The Dominion of New England and the Roots of Anglo-American Conflict This paper argues that the process by which the English Crown’s initially modest attempts to tweak New England colonial governance dovetailed into a reactionary denial of all colonial liberties. The imposition of autocratic imperial rule and armed occupation of New England reflects the fundamental bankruptcy of the “imperial constitution,” namely, the incompatibility of the right of colonists to representative assemblies and the imperial authority of the English state. Because on a constitutional level the two were incompatible, a protracted conflict between colonists and metropolitans had a strong likelihood of ending in logical extremes neither party expected or wanted: the abolition of colonial self- government by the English state and a revolutionary attack on the authority of the English state by colonists. as long as colonists and metropolitans failed to reconcile colonial rights with metropolitan sovereignty, they papered over a zero sum game. This paper is preliminary and based upon an initial reading of sources; additional research of contemporary scholarship in particular would improve it. ABSTRACT The Right to Fortifications: American Communities and the Politics of Harbor Defense: 1794-1812 This paper argues that American seaport towns played an outsized and determinative role in the fortification of their harbors in the immediate post- revolutionary period. While historians have examined the individual and collective efforts of military engineers during this period, they have neglected the importance of the labor, financial and political resources of cities in realizing seacoast defense. I found strong connections between urban politics and urban seacoast fortifications at every level from grassroots community organizations to the halls of Congress. to complete this project and properly qualify its conclusions, however, a comprehensive analysis of legislative dynamics and seaport populations would be necessary. This paper might serve as the nucleus of future research on the relationship between American communities and fortifications.
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Robinson, Adriane. "Perceived factors that influence achievement of tenure for African American faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Old Dominion University." Diss., This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-154633/.
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Adams, Megan. ""A Border is a Veil Not Many People Can Wear": Testimonial Fiction and Transnational Healing in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3436.
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Drawing on recent attempts to reconcile the divergent nations of Hispaniola, I will examine the ways in which fiction by U.S. immigrant writers Danticat and Rosario looks back to the traumatic history of race relations on Hispaniola and the 1937 massacre as a means of approaching reconciliation and healing amongst the inhabitants of Hispaniola. As invested outsiders to their homelands, Danticat and Rosario may work, as Chancy suggests, in the capacity of actors for Hispaniola. Both Danticat and Rosario graciously admit that their writing is largely contingent on the relative freedom from censure that their American citizenship affords them. In this capacity, these immigrant writers are uniquely able to revisit a traumatic cultural past to give voice to its widely arrayed victims and to provide an interrogation of the makings of horrific brutality. Despite the largely U.S. American readership, these authors foster a form of reconciliation through their works by forcing the audience to move past dichotomous thinking about the massacre, but also about the boundaries between the two nations.
“…in traumatic times like ours, when reality itself is so distorted as to have become impossible and abnormal, it is the function of all culture, partaking of this abnormality, to be aware of its own sickness. To be aware of the unreality or inauthenticity of the so-called real, is to reinterpret this reality. To reinterpret this reality is to commit oneself to a constant revolutionary assault against it.” (―We Must Learn to Sit Down and Talk about a Little Culture,‖ Sylvia Wynter 31)
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Rocha, Carolina da Cunha. "Chama da fé, luz da razão : o ideário de frei Servando Teresa de Mier no contexto das independências hispano-americanas." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2006. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/6700.
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Esta dissertação visa a compreensão da realocação de ideários europeus e norte-americanos para o contexto hispano-americano de formação dos estados nacionais independentes, na passagem do século XVIII para o início do século XIX, momento em que as correntes de pensamento do Iluminismo fluíam para o universo colonial, tomando-se por base os trabalhos do frei dominicano mexicano Servando Teresa de Mier (1763-1827). Por ter sido testemunha privilegiada, ao percorrer lugares de onde emanavam as ondas reformistas, como a Europa e os Estados Unidos, e após ter sofrido pena de expatriação por oferecer explicação política ao milagre guadalupano, Mier aparece como típico representante criollo, cujo protagonismo alia conceitos da modernidade ilustrada, com seus ideais racionais e científicos, ao arcabouço cultural e espiritual vivido pelo México colonial. Este trabalho discute o limite do alcance das doutrinas iluministas nas obras de frei Servando, sua contribuição para a construção do estado mexicano independente, bem como para a formação da identidade nacional, utilizando-se as categorias históricas de memória, identidade e representação para melhor compreensão deste fenômeno. Conclui-se que o ideário elaborado por frei Servando é expoente hispano-americano da corrente intelectual reformista presente na história ocidental do período analisado e fundamental para a compreensão da História das Idéias na Hispano América. ____________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This dissertation aims at comprehending the changes which took place in the way of thinking in the Hispanic-American context of formation of the national independent states, during the transition from the 18th to the 19th century, when Illuminism ideas reached the colonies, becoming the basis of Mexican priest Servando Teresa de Mier (1763-1827) ideas. For being privileged witness, wandering around places from where reforming forces were strong, like in the United States of America and Europe, and after suffering expatriation for relating political reasons to Guadalupe’s miracle, Mier appears as a typical representation of the criollos, which protagonism associates concepts of the illustrated modernity, with its rational and scientific ideals, to the Colonial Mexico cultural and spiritual background. This work discuss the boundaries of the Illuminist doctrine in the work of Servando, his contribution to the establishment of the Mexican Independent State, as well as to the formation of a national identity making use of the historical categories of memory, identity and representation to explain this phenomenon better. It is concluded that Servando´s ideal is a Hispanic-American exponent of the reformist intellectual trend present in Western history of the period which was analyzed, being essential to the comprehension of the History of Ideas in Hispanic-America. Key words: History of Ideas; Hispanic-America; Illuminism; Independent National State; memory; identity; representation; Servando Teresa de Mier.
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Martinez, Sosa Maria Isabel. "Comunicación de la cultura en la República Dominicana, impedimentos para la difusión y su relación con la pobreza." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/156036.
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[ES] Esta investigación recoge distintos puntos de vista y percepciones en torno a los impedimentos de comunicación de la acción cultural, en especial entre personas que viven en pobreza, en la República Dominicana. La misma se basa en un extenso análisis bibliográfico y de opinión y contó con la participación de más de 1,800 internautas, de más de 300 estudiantes de bachillerato, de casi una veintena de expertos y de cerca de una decena de residentes rurales para presentar una correlación entre cultura, desarrollo, (des)igualdad y comunicación. Se pretende contextualizar la realidad de la República Dominicana en materia de comunicación, acción y educación cultural, así como la percepción que tiene el dominicano en torno a las desigualdades en el campo cultural. En el proceso se identificaron oportunidades de mejora e ideas para maximizar la difusión de acciones culturales.[CA] Esta investigación arreplega distints punts de vista i percepcions entorn dels impediments de comunicació de l'acció cultural, en especial entre persones que viuen en pobresa, en la República Dominicana. La mateixa es basa en una extensa anàlisi bibliogràfica i d'opinió i va comptar amb la participació de més de 1,800 internautes, de més de 300 estudiants de batxillerat, de quasi una vintena d'experts i de prop d'una desena de residents rurals per a presentar una correlació entre cultura, desenrotllament, (dónes) igualtat i comunicació. Es pretén contextualitzar la realitat de la República Dominicana en matèria de comunicació, acció i educació cultural, així com la percepció que té el dominicà entorn de les desigualtats en el camp cultural. En el procés es van identificar oportunitats de millora i idees per a maximitzar la difusió d'accions culturals.
[EN] This research collects different points of view and perceptions about the communication impediments of the cultural action, especially among people living in poverty, in the Dominican Republic. It is based on an extensive bibliographical and opinion analysis and a series of interactions involving more than 1,800 Internet users, more than 300 high school students, almost twenty experts and about ten rural residents to present a correlation between culture, development, (dis)equality and communication. The aim is to contextualize the reality of the Dominican Republic in terms of communication, cultural action and education, as well as the perception that the Dominican individuals have, regarding the inequalities in the cultural field. Throughout this process, opportunities for improvement and ideas for maximizing the dissemination of cultural actions were identified.
Martinez Sosa, MI. (2020). Comunicación de la cultura en la República Dominicana, impedimentos para la difusión y su relación con la pobreza [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/156036
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Almonte, Michelle. "History, Material Culture, and the Search for the Mythic American Dream in Angie Cruz’s Let it Rain Coffee." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3175.
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This thesis examines the connection between Dominican history, the influence of American material culture, and the mythic American Dream as catalysts for migration. The two U.S. occupations and American propaganda through media had a great effect on the deceptive perception of an American life as an effortless method for attaining wealth. Let it Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz, will focus on the character, Esperanza Colon, and her obsession with the lavish lifestyle she views on the television show, Dallas. Material objects, as argued by Daniel Miller in his book, Stuff, work in subtle yet significant ways and determine our function, identification, and experience in society. If the ideal purpose of material culture is to presuppose our roles as individuals, one can conclude that the novel showcases the issues of a subordinate class struggling to attain the material goods that represent economic wealth while maintaining a sense of self-identification and self-agency.
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Orique, David Thomas 1959. "The unheard voice of law in Bartolome de Las Casas's "Brevisima relacion de la destruicion de las Indias"." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11616.
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xiv, 485 p.The organizing principle of this dissertation is that Las Casas's most famous work, the Brevisima relacion , is primarily an intricately reasoned legal argument against the excesses of early Spanish colonialism rather than a fiery polemical diatribe by the "first human rights activist." Contrary to such anachronistic (though enduringly popular) characterization, this study employs a historical perspective to view this influential text as belonging to the genres of the early modern juridical tradition. Accordingly, this investigation begins by examining the historical matrix of fifteenth-century and early sixteenth-century Spain to properly contextualize Las Casas's early life and certain initial colonial institutions of the Spanish Indies. Similarly, his juridical expertise is firmly rooted in an explication of his contemporaneous formation in canon law and theology. From these foundational strands of his life and work, his maturing juridical voice spoke most decisively in certain of the major debates among Spanish jurists, theologians, and politicians--as well as in the Brevísima relación --in the wake of the Iberian "discovery" of what was for all concerned a physical as well as philosophical "New World." The combined focus of subsequent chapters elucidates the fundamentally juridical dimensions of the text, beginning with the specific context accompanying its genesis in 1542 until its publication a decade later. The treatise's legal character as an official publication based on various evidentiary sources is further revealed by the text's triple function--to inform, to denounce, and to petition, which in turn corresponds to the genres of relaciones, denuncias , and peticiones of the civil juridical tradition. The Brevísima relación 's content unveils far more than this; the epistemological rationale and analytic framework are intimately linked to canonistic, Thomistic, and biblical genres of the ecclesial juridical tradition. Continuing this historical investigation, the concluding chapter demonstrates anew the fundamental grounding of Las Casas's approach in the vibrant first generations of juristic discourse of the so-called Spanish colonial era. His multifaceted juridical voice was distinctively encoded in a powerful melding of civil and ecclesial legal traditions. This dissertation intends to communicate this voice intelligibly with the proper accents of the past.
Committee in charge: Dr. Robert Haskett, Chairperson; Dr. Carlos Aguirre, Member; Dr. Stephanie Wood, Member; Dr. David Luebke, Member; Dr. Stephen Shoemaker, Outside Member
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Peabody, Duncan. "Field and Laboratory Comparison of the Hydraulic Performance of Two Ceramic Pot Water Filters." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4199.
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Currently 884 million people worldwide are living without access to an improved source of drinking water (WHO/UNICEF, 2011). Piped-water on premises is the ultimate goal of World Health Organization (WHO) due to the ability to treat all of the water and distribute it safely in pressurized pipes. However, Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) is an option for improving the quality of drinking water where that infrastructure is not yet developed, especially where there is a risk of recontamination between point of collection and point of use (Clasen, 2006).
This study analyzed one such HWTS, the ceramic pot water filter. The study compared the hydraulic properties of the FilterPure (FP) and Potters for Peace (PFP) ceramic pot filters through a thirteen-month field study in the Dominican Republic and laboratory studies at the University of South Florida.
In the field study 55 filters were tested for first hour flow rate and hydraulic conductivity. Eight first hour flow rate tests were conducted in the field on one month intervals during months 7- 13. FP filters had an average first hour flow rate of 553 ml/hr and PFP Filters had a first hour flow rate of 395 ml/hr. No significant change in first hour flow rate was observed over time in FP filters. PFP experienced an average increase of 31 ml/hr per month during the seven-month testing period.
Falling head tests were conducted on four filters in the laboratory and the flow rate was modeled to determine hydraulic conductivity. Hydraulic conductivity values for FP filters ranged from k = 0.0495 - 0.0831 cm/hr and for PFP filters ranged from k = 0.0136 - 0.0389 cm/hr.
Eight out of 29 (26%) Potters for Peace filters in the field had first hour flow rates of less than 250 ml/hr by month nine of the study and had to be replaced and removed from the study. In total 24 of 55 (44%) filters (8 FP and 16 PFP) had to be removed from the study due to several reasons discussed in this thesis.
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Angel, Julie R. "Location, Location, Location: A Probabilistic Model of Banked Earthwork Placement Within the Central Ohio Landscape During the Early and Middle Woodland Periods." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274205403.
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LeGris, Hannah Fraser. "HYBRIDITY, TRAUMA, AND QUEER IDENTITY: READING MASCULINITY ACROSS THE TEXTS OF JUNOT DÍAZ." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/9.
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When writing about Junot Díaz’s Drown (1996) Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and This is How You Lose Her (2012), I focus on the iterations of masculinity depicted and embodied by Yunior de las Casas, the primary narrator of this collection. I explore the links between diaspora, hybridity, masculinity, and trauma, arguing that both socio-historical and personal traumatic experience reverberates through the psyches and bodies of Díaz’s characters. I demonstrate the relationship between Yunior’s navigation of the United States and the Dominican Republic and his ever-shifting sexuality, self-presentation, and gender identity. The physical and discursive spaces he must traverse contain multiple, contradictory narratives about how to be a man; within Díaz’s collection, we witness Yunior’s coming-to-terms with the way that these stories of masculinity are rendered dysfunctional and incoherent. Accordingly, Yunior uses the hegemonic discourses of masculinity as a way to cloak his own queer difference, ambivalently interacting and identifying with characters marked as Other. In this analysis, I read Yunior’s masculinity as reactionary to the expectations of Domincan society, and also explore how he shaped by migration, trauma, and unspeakable queer desire.
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Setiawan, Agus [Verfasser], Marc [Akademischer Betreuer] Frey, Dominic [Akademischer Betreuer] Sachsenmaier, and J. Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Lindblad. "The Political and Economic Relationship of American-Dutch Colonial Administration in Southeast Asia : A Case Study of the Rivalry between Royal Dutch/Shell and Standard Oil in the Netherlands Indies (1907-1928) / Agus Setiawan. Betreuer: Marc Frey. Gutachter: Marc Frey ; Dominic Sachsenmaier ; J. Thomas Lindblad." Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1081255897/34.
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De, Monte James B. "Dago Red." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1240241112.
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FOPPA, PEDRETTI CLARA. ""¡ Y yo seguiré a caballo!" Rafael Trujillo: la storia, l'uomo, il personaggio." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/4377.
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La storia della Repubblica Dominicana è stata tristemente costellata, fin dalle origini, da un susseguirsi di sanguinose lotte, invasioni, guerre, feroci dittature, occupazioni militari e violente calamità naturali. Tuttavia, l’Era di Trujillo è ricordata dal popolo dominicano come il periodo più penoso e buio, che ha profondamente marcato il suo passato e la cui essenza si trascina silenziosa nel suo presente. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, pur essendo solo l’ultimo dei tiranni che hanno oppresso il popolo quisqueyano, è riconosciuto come uno dei dittatori più spietati dell’America Latina. Il suo diabolico carisma, accompagnato dalla crudeltà delle sue azioni, ha lasciato una traccia indelebile nell’identità e nell’animo della sua gente, diventando un’ispirazione letteraria che ha saputo dare vita, valicando anche i confini dell’isola, alla novela del trujillato.
La presente ricerca si concentrerà sull’evoluzione della novela del trujillato e del personaggio letterario di Trujillo nel contesto dominicano e all’interno dei romanzi scritti da autori stranieri come Galíndez di Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, En el tiempo de las mariposas di Julia Álvarez, La Fiesta del Chivo di Mario Vargas Llosa e La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao di Junot Díaz.The history of the Dominican Republic is cluttered with a string of bloody fights, invasions, wars, cruel dictatorships, military occupations and aggressive natural disasters. Nevertheless the Dominicans remember the ‘Trujillo’s Era’ as the darkest and more sorrowful period, that has deeply scarred their past and whose essence silently drags on in their present. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina is only the last dictator who has oppressed the Dominican people, but he is known as one of the most vicious and ruthless dictators that have plagued Latin America. His diabolic charisma and his cruel actions have indelibly marked the identity and the soul of his people, becoming a literary inspiration that could cross the island’s confines and give rise to the novela del trujillato. This thesis aims to analyze the evolution of the novela del trujillato and the character of Trujillo both in the Dominican context and in the novels, written by foreign authors, Galíndez by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, En el tiempo de las mariposas by Julia Álvarez, La Fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa and La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao by Junot Díaz.
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FOPPA, PEDRETTI CLARA. ""¡ Y yo seguiré a caballo!" Rafael Trujillo: la storia, l'uomo, il personaggio." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/4377.
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La storia della Repubblica Dominicana è stata tristemente costellata, fin dalle origini, da un susseguirsi di sanguinose lotte, invasioni, guerre, feroci dittature, occupazioni militari e violente calamità naturali. Tuttavia, l’Era di Trujillo è ricordata dal popolo dominicano come il periodo più penoso e buio, che ha profondamente marcato il suo passato e la cui essenza si trascina silenziosa nel suo presente. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, pur essendo solo l’ultimo dei tiranni che hanno oppresso il popolo quisqueyano, è riconosciuto come uno dei dittatori più spietati dell’America Latina. Il suo diabolico carisma, accompagnato dalla crudeltà delle sue azioni, ha lasciato una traccia indelebile nell’identità e nell’animo della sua gente, diventando un’ispirazione letteraria che ha saputo dare vita, valicando anche i confini dell’isola, alla novela del trujillato.
La presente ricerca si concentrerà sull’evoluzione della novela del trujillato e del personaggio letterario di Trujillo nel contesto dominicano e all’interno dei romanzi scritti da autori stranieri come Galíndez di Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, En el tiempo de las mariposas di Julia Álvarez, La Fiesta del Chivo di Mario Vargas Llosa e La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao di Junot Díaz.The history of the Dominican Republic is cluttered with a string of bloody fights, invasions, wars, cruel dictatorships, military occupations and aggressive natural disasters. Nevertheless the Dominicans remember the ‘Trujillo’s Era’ as the darkest and more sorrowful period, that has deeply scarred their past and whose essence silently drags on in their present. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina is only the last dictator who has oppressed the Dominican people, but he is known as one of the most vicious and ruthless dictators that have plagued Latin America. His diabolic charisma and his cruel actions have indelibly marked the identity and the soul of his people, becoming a literary inspiration that could cross the island’s confines and give rise to the novela del trujillato. This thesis aims to analyze the evolution of the novela del trujillato and the character of Trujillo both in the Dominican context and in the novels, written by foreign authors, Galíndez by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, En el tiempo de las mariposas by Julia Álvarez, La Fiesta del Chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa and La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao by Junot Díaz.
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Venegoni, Giovanni. "La flibuste de Saint-Domingue (1684-1727) : analyse d'un phénomène américain." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040065.
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Cette thèse porte sur la transformation des communautés coloniales dans le Nouveau Monde, d’émanation de la société européenne à acteurs du continent américain. Le cœur de cette étude sera le processus d’« américanisation », entendu comme une métamorphose, sur le sol américain, des éléments issus d’autres parties du monde. Pour étudier ce phénomène historique, on a pris comme exemple le cas de la population de la colonie française de Saint-Domingue (aujourd’hui Haïti), et en particulier les « flibustiers dominguois ».Le terme « flibuste », dans la correspondance des administrateurs français, fait référence à un élément des communautés coloniales considéré comme crucial pour la consolidation des colonies américaines. Le processus d’« américanisation » de la flibuste, en relation avec les espaces américains et les établissements coloniaux européens est finalement l’objet principal de cette thèse .En utilisant une approche de la historico-culturel, on a contextualisé le phénomène des « flibustiers » parmi les premières communautés européennes qui se sont installés en Amérique . L’évolution de la relation entre les « flibustiers » de Saint- Domingue et les « espaces » - économique, militaire, diplomatique, social, humain – de la Mer des Caraïbes et sur le continent américain est un indicateur de la transformation des « flibustiers » en un phénomène « américanisé ».Grâce à la lecture des documents d’archives, des mémoires et des publications contemporaines des années entre 1684 et 1727, on a reconstruit la dynamique de la relation entre ce groupe et le contexte américain, afin de prouver que sa métamorphose, bien que inachevée, fut l’un des premiers exemples d’américanisationThis thesis focuses on the evolution from emanation of European society to actors of the American continent of colonial communities in the New World. The main focus of this study will be the process of “americanization”, understood as a metamorphosis, on American soil, of the elements come from other parts of the world. To study this historical phenomenon, it is taken as an example the case of the population of the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today Haiti), and in particular the “freebooters”.The term “freebooter”, in the correspondence of the French administrators, refers to an element of the colonial communities considered crucial for American settlements. The process of “americanization” of the freebooters, in relation with American spaces and European colonies, is the focus of this thesis.Using a culture-historical approach, we have contextualized the phenomenon of “freebooters” among the first European communities who settled in America. The evolution of the relationship between the “freebooters” of Saint-Domingue and the “spaces” – economic, military, diplomatic, social, human – of the Caribbean Sea and the American hemisphere is an indicator of the transformation of the “freebooters” in a “americanized” phenomenon.Through the reading of archival records, memoirs and coeval publications of the years between 1684 and 1727, we have reconstructed the dynamics of the relationship between this group and the American context, in order to prove that its metamorphosis, although unfinished, was one of the first examples of early modern americanization
Questa tesi si concentra sulla trasformazione delle comunità coloniali del Nuovo Mondo da emanazione della società europea a soggetto proprio del continente americano. Al centro dello studio sarà posto il processo di “americanizzazione”, inteso come la metamorfosi, sul suolo americano, degli elementi giunti dalle altre parti del mondo. Per studiare questo fenomeno storico, si è preso come esempio il caso della popolazione della colonia francese di Saint-Domingue (oggi Haiti), ed in particolare la “filibusta”. Il termine “filibusta”, nelle corrispondenze dei governatori francesi, fa riferimento ad un elemento delle comunità coloniali considerato fondamentale per gli insediamenti americani. Il processo di “americanizzazione” della filibusta, in relazione con gli spazi americani e con gli insediamenti coloniali europei, è la tematica principale di questa tesi. Utilizzando un approccio storico-culturale, si è contestualizzato il fenomeno della “filibusta” nelle prime comunità europee insediatesi in America. L’evoluzione dei rapporti tra i “filibustieri” della colonia francese di Saint-Domingue e gli “spazi” – economico, militare, diplomatico, sociale, umano – del Mar dei Caraibi e dell’emisfero americano è un indicatore della trasformazione della “filibusta” in un fenomeno “americanizzato”.Attraverso la lettura della documentazione d’archivio, della memorialistica e della pubblicistica degli anni compresi tra il 1684 e il 1727, si sono ricostruite le dinamiche delle relazioni esistenti tra questo gruppo e l’ambito americano, al fine di dimostrare che la sua metamorfosi, sebbene incompiuta, fu uno dei primi esempi di americanizzazione