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Simmons, Kimberly Eison. "The Dominican Americans:The Dominican Americans." Transforming Anthropology 9, no. 2 (July 2000): 37–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tran.2000.9.2.37.
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Clemons, Aris Moreno. "New Blacks: Language, DNA, and the Construction of the African American/Dominican Boundary of Difference." Genealogy 5, no. 1 (December 24, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5010001.
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Given the current political climate in the U.S.—the civil unrest regarding the recognition of the Black Lives Matter movement, the calls to abolish prisons and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, and the workers’ rights movements—projects investigating moments of inter-ethnic solidarity and conflict remain essential. Because inter-ethnic conflict and solidarity in communities of color have become more visible as waves of migration over the past 50 years have complicated and enriched the sociocultural landscape of the U.S., I examine the ways that raciolinguistic ideologies are reflected in assertions of ethno-racial belonging for Afro-Dominicans and their descendants. Framing my analysis at the language, race, and identity interface, I ask what mechanisms are used to perform Blackness and/or anti-Blackness for Dominican(-American)s and in what ways does this behavior contribute to our understanding of Blackness in the U.S.? I undertake a critical discourse analysis on 10 YouTube videos that discuss what I call the African American/Dominican boundary of difference. The results show that the primary inter-ethnic conflict between Dominican(-Americans) and African Americans was posited through a categorization fallacy, in which the racial term “Black” was conceived as an ethnic term for use only with African Americans.
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Graham, Pamela M. "The Dominican Americans." Journal of American Ethnic History 20, no. 2 (January 1, 2001): 130–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27502691.
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Bailey, Benjamin. "Language and negotiation of ethnic/racial identity among Dominican Americans." Language in Society 29, no. 4 (October 2000): 555–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500004036.
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The ethnolinguistic terms in which the children of Dominican immigrants in Rhode Island think of themselves, i.e. as “Spanish” or “Hispanic,” are frequently at odds with the phenotype-based racial terms “Black” or “African American,” applied to them by others in the United States. Spanish language is central to resisting such phenotype-racial categorization, which denies Dominican Americans their Hispanic ethnicity. Through discourse analysis of naturally occurring peer interaction at a high school, this article shows how a Dominican American who is phenotypically indistinguishable from African Americans uses language, in both intra- and inter-ethnic contexts, to negotiate identity and resist ascription to totalizing phenotype-racial categories. In using language to resist such hegemonic social categorization, the Dominican second generation is contributing to the transformation of existing social categories and the constitution of new ones in the US.
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Majkowska, Karolina. "“Neither Here Nor There.” The Experience of Borderless Nation in Contemporary Dominican-American Literature." Colloquia Humanistica, no. 6 (November 22, 2017): 113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/ch.2017.009.
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“Neither Here Nor There.” The Experience of Borderless Nation in Contemporary Dominican-American LiteratureDiscussing migrant identities, critics very often focus on the state in-between, the state between the borders, or being neither here nor there, and a migrant group that seems to epitomize this in-between condition is the Dominican-Americans. Consequently, the article seeks to examine the experience of in-betweenness, of being suspended between the boundaries and borders of two countries in selected texts of contemporary Dominican-American writers: Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and a short story “Monstro,” and Angie Cruz’s Soledad. It aims to analyze how the texts discuss the experience of in-betweenness through hybridity (for instance intertextuality and magical realism) with the use of tools offered by the neo-baroque esthetics. „Ani tu, ani tam”. Doświadczenie narodu bez granic we współczesnej literaturze dominikańsko-amerykańskiejAnaliza tożsamości imigrantów często skupia się na byciu pomiędzy, egzystowaniu między granicami, a także braku przynależności do żadnej z kultur. Grupa, która wydaje się uosabiać ten stan, to migranci z Republiki Dominikany w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje temat doświadczenia bycia pomiędzy, zawieszenia pomiędzy granicami i między dwoma krajami w wybranych tekstach współczesnych pisarzy dominikańsko-amerykańskich: powieści Krótki i niezwykły żywot Oscara Wao i opowiadania „Monstro” Junota Díaza oraz powieści Soledad Angie Cruz. Celem artykułu jest analiza doświadczenia bycia pomiędzy wyrażanego poprzez hybrydę, czemu służą narzędzia oferowane przez estetykę neobarokową, a także poprzez intertekstualność i realizm magiczny.
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García, Ofelia, Isabel Evangelista, Mabel Martínez, Carmen Disla, and Bonifacio Paulino. "Spanish language use and attitudes: A study of two New York City communities." Language in Society 17, no. 4 (December 1988): 475–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500013063.
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ABSTRACTThis article presents the results of a comparative study of two Hispanic communities in New York City: Washington Heights and Elmhurst/Corona. Our data on language proficiency, language use, and attitudes were gathered using a sociolinguistic questionnaire. However, the study benefited from the interactive process established between the researchers and the communities which they studied and in which they live and work.Our data are analyzed along three dimensions. First, we compare data for the two Spanish-speaking communities. We discuss how the social status and the ethnic configuration of the community affect linguistic and attitudinal behaviors. Then, we analyze the data according to national origin. We discuss how the five nationality groups included in our study – Central Americans, Cubans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and South Americans – differ in language proficiency, language use, and language attitudes. Finally, we compare the data for Dominicans in Washington Heights to that of Dominicans in Elmhurst/Corona. We examine how national origin and the language surround of the ethnic community interact in order to determine language use and attitudes. Some of the findings here differ from what may be supposed of such cases.We suggest socioeducational and language policies for Hispanics in the United States based on the results of this study. (Sociology of language, sociolinguistics, language planning, ethnic studies, sociology, education of language minorities, language education, Central American, Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican, South American Spanish in New York City)
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Zeller, Neici M. "Dominican-Americans and the politics of empowerment." Latino Studies 8, no. 3 (September 2010): 433–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/lst.2010.36.
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Baez, Annecy. "Chapter 4: Alcohol Use Among Dominican-Americans." Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 23, no. 2-3 (June 2005): 53–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j020v23n02_04.
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Wiley, Shaun. "Perceived discrimination, categorization threat, and Dominican Americans’ attitudes toward African Americans." Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 25, no. 4 (October 2019): 604–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000275.
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Bailey, Benjamin. "The Language of Multiple Identities among Dominican Americans." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 10, no. 2 (December 2000): 190–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2000.10.2.190.
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Pessar, Patricia R. "Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment. Ana Aparicio." Journal of Anthropological Research 65, no. 2 (July 2009): 313–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jar.65.2.25608200.
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Bailey, Benjamin. "Social/interactional functions of code switching among Dominican Americans." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2000): 165–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.10.2.01bai.
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Linguistic assumptions of an individual speaker-hearer are subtly reflected in analyses of code switching that assign switches to “conversational strategies,” categories that are treated as if they existed prior to, and independent of, actual interactions. While such categories provide convenient rubrics for many common and significant social functions of code switching, they fail to capture the interactionally emergent functions of many switches. In this article I highlight such locally emergent functions of code switching among Dominican American high school students by examining several transcripts of intra-group, peer interaction from a conversation analytic perspective. Many switches in such peer interaction are better explained in terms of the sequential, conversational management activities achieved by interlocutors than by pre-defined categories of switches.
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Reidenberg, M. M., Z. P. Gu, B. Lorenzo, E. Coutinho, C. Athayde, J. Frick, F. Alvarez, V. Brache, and E. E. Emuveyan. "Differences in serum potassium concentrations in normal men in different geographic locations." Clinical Chemistry 39, no. 1 (January 1, 1993): 72–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clinchem/39.1.72.
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Abstract Hypokalemia has been associated with the taking of gossypol, a potential oral antifertility drug for men. Because the frequency of this response differed in different parts of the world, this study was done to learn if "normal" serum [K+] also differed. [K+] was measured by flame photometry in serum from apparently normal men from Austria (n = 30), China (53), Brazil (100), the Dominican Republic (38), and the US (103), and in plasma from Nigerian men (82). The mean (SD) for [K+] in Chinese men, 3.82 (0.27) mmol/L, was lower than that in Brazilians [4.06 (0.29) mmol/L], Austrians [4.14 (0.44) mmol/L], Dominicans [4.37 (0.33) mmol/L], or Americans [4.38 (0.37) mmol/L]. Apparently there are regional differences in average serum [K+], with men in China having lower serum [K+] than men elsewhere. This may predispose them to hypokalemia.
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DECENA, CARLOS ULISES. "Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment by Ana Aparicio." American Anthropologist 110, no. 1 (April 29, 2008): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00018_3.x.
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Espinal, Rosario. "Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment - by A. Aparicio." Bulletin of Latin American Research 26, no. 3 (July 2007): 437–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2007.00232_14.x.
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David, Blazar. "Extending the Conversation: Using Theater to Engage Cultural Identity: Implications for Students and Teachers." English Education 43, no. 3 (April 1, 2011): 293–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ee201114003.
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David Blazar shares his experiences teaching a unit based on the Broadway musical In the Heights as a way of engaging the cultural identity of his students, mainly Dominican Americans. He learned much about his students as a result, enabling him to connect with them as people but also to encourage their specific needs as students, thinkers, and writers.
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Kiesling, Scott Fabius. "Language, Race, and Negotiation of Identity: A Study of Dominican Americans." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14, no. 1 (June 2004): 113–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2004.14.1.113.
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KEVANE, BRIDGET. "The Hispanic Absence in the North American Literary Canon." Journal of American Studies 35, no. 1 (April 2001): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875801006545.
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I recently completed a book of interviews (Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers, co-edited with Juanita Heredia, University of New Mexico Press, 2000) with ten of the most prominent Latina writers in the US; Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago and Helena María Viramontes. These women, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican and Puerto Rican Americans, raised issues that ranged from the craft of writing to the inherent problems of national identities. The themes generated in our conversations with these women – their doubled ethnic identities, their complicated relationship to their communities, their difficulties in representing their communities and, finally, their work as part of the larger American canon – revealed a powerful discourse about what it means to be Latina American in the United States. After spending two years talking with these women, it is evident to me that Latina literature is a vital part of American literature and should be included in any study of comparative American literatures.
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Latta, Steven C., and Pedro Genaro Rodríguez. "Notable bird records from Hispaniola and associated islands, including four new species." Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 31 (December 24, 2018): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.55431/jco.2018.31.34-37.
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Abstract: Recent work on Hispaniola and associated islands has provided observations of four new species not previously formally recorded, including Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus), Cory’s Shearwater (Calonectris diomedea), Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus), and Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura). In addition, six species considered vagrants to Hispaniola have been reported, including Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus), Bonaparte’s Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia), White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus), Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota), Nashville Warbler (Oreothlypis ruficapilla), and Mourning Warbler (Geothlypis philadelphia), and the status of one additional species, Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica) has been changed by evidence of nesting in the Dominican Republic.
Keywords: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Hispaniola, Navassa Island
Resumen: Trabajos recientes en La Española e islas asociadas han proporcionado observaciones de cuatro nuevas especies no registradas previamente, incluyendo Zarapito Americano (Numenius americanus), Pardela Cenicienta (Calonectris diomedea), Vireo de Filadelfia (Vireo philadelphicus) y Vidua Colicinta (Vidua macroura). Además, se han reportado seis especies consideradas vagabundas a La Española, incluyendo Mergansa de Caperuza (Lophodytes cucullatus), Gaviota de Bonaparte (Chroicocephalus philadelphia), Vireo de Ojo Blanco (Vireo griseus), Golondrina de Farallón (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota), Ciguíta de Nashville (Oreothlypis ruficapilla), y Ciguíta Triste (Geothlypis philadelphia), y el estado de una especie adicional, Gaviota Pico Corto (Gelochelidon nilotica) ha sido cambiado por la evidencia de anidación en la República Dominicana.
Palabras clave: Haití, Isla Navassa, La Española, República Dominicana
Résumé: Des travaux récents sur Hispaniola et les îles associées ont permis d’observer quatre nouvelles espèces non répertoriées auparavant, notamment le Courlis à long bec (Numenius americanus), le Puffin cendré (Calonectris diomedea), le Viréo de Philadelphie (Vireo philadelphicus) et la Veuve dominicaine (Vidua macroura). En outre, six espèces considérées comme des vagabonds à Hispaniola ont été signalées, dont le Harle couronné (Lophodytes cucullatus), le Mouette de Bonaparte (Chroicocephalus philadelphia), le Viréo aux yeux blancs (Vireo griseus), l’Hirondelle à front blanc (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota), la Paruline à joues grises (Oreothlypis ruficapilla), et la Paruline triste (Geothlypis philadelphia), ainsi que le statut d’une autre espèce, la Sterne hansel (Gelochelidon nilotica) a été modifié en raison de preuves de nidification en République dominicaine.
Mots clés: Haïti, Hispaniola, île de Navassa, République dominicaine
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Fernández Jiménez, Mónica. "Invisible or inaudible? The representation of working-class immigrants in the short fiction of Junot Díaz." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 11, no. 1-2 (June 1, 2021): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00034_1.
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In Junot Díaz’s short story collections, Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), sound plays a crucial role in the representation of the experiences of the Dominican migrants in the United States who populate their pages. The collections show the liminal situations which the stories’ characters face, emphasizing their shifting acoustic environments and the pressure to shape one’s own sonic identity to meet the demands of the new language and culture. The experiences of these Dominican migrants – particularly how they are targeted by the Americans they encounter because of their accents – reflect the politics of a cultural neo-racism which differs from the discourse of colonial Otherness but which bears the same monocultural logic. As such, the stories’ migrants become silenced rather than invisible. At the same time, a belief in the power of the Other’s personal and culturally specific voice as a transformative element is emphasized in these collections with Díaz’s use of Spanish and the narrator’s persistent presence throughout all of the stories.
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Aono, Hiroshi, Hideki Ozawa, Mercedes Castro Bello, Morio Ito, and Isao Saito. "Prevalence of Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease Among Dominicans in the Dominican Republic: Comparison with Japanese and Americans Using Existing Data." Journal of Epidemiology 7, no. 4 (1997): 238–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.7.238.
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Dicker, Susan J. "Dominican Americans in Washington Heights, New York: Language and Culture in a Transnational Community." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 9, no. 6 (November 15, 2006): 713–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2167/beb350.0.
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Sparks, Garry. "The Use of Mayan Scripture in the Americas’ First Christian Theology." Numen 61, no. 4 (June 9, 2014): 396–429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341330.
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This study examines the work of the Dominican Friar Domingo de Vico, specifically his theology of or for the “Indians,” the Theologia Indorum, written originally in K’iche’ Maya in 1553–1554. While scholarship in recent decades has focused on the first post-contact writings by autochthonous Americans, particularly the Popol Wuj, or Mayan “Council Book,” and the early impact of Hispano-Catholicism, little attention has been paid to the influence of indigenous religion on colonial Christianity. Therefore, this study critically examines the first use of Mayan myths in Christian literature for a more nuanced understanding of the mutual dynamics between missionaries and the missionized as well as the distinctions between missionary translation strategies in the early formative decades of first contact.
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Jarvis Luis, Rafael. "Política dominicana para atraer inmigración europea (1870-1950)." Americanía: Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos, no. 10 (May 21, 2020): 109–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.46661/americania.4910.
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Quienes dirigieron el Estado dominicano entre 1870 y 1950 desarrollaron políticas enfocadas a atraer inmigrantes europeos hacia la República Dominicana, con el doble propósito de aumentar el número de habitantes para incrementar la densidad de población y contribuir al progreso socioeconómico, mediante la presencia de trabajadores extranjeros. Diversas tácticas fueron aplicadas a fin de alcanzar este propósito. En el presente ensayo se describe el proceso que transita desde la promoción de la inmigración europea hacia el control de la inmigración afrodescendiente procedente de otras islas del Caribe.
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Morgan, Jana, Jonathan Hartlyn, and Rosario Espinal. "Dominican Party System Continuity amid Regional Transformations: Economic Policy, Clientelism, and Migration Flows." Latin American Politics and Society 53, no. 01 (2011): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2011.00107.x.
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AbstractIn the 1980s and 1990s, economic crisis produced ideological convergence in many Latin American party systems. Much scholarship explores how this convergence frequently provoked system change that enabled renewed ideological differentiation, but little research examines instances where convergence persisted without destabilizing the system. Through comparative historical analysis of Dominican continuity amid regional change, this study identifies factors that sustain or challenge party systems. Then, through analysis of Americas Barometer surveys, it assesses the causal mechanisms through which these factors shape support for the traditional Dominican parties. The findings demonstrate that maintaining programmatic and clientelist linkages facilitates continuity. In addition, the article argues that the threats political outsiders pose to existing party systems are constrained when people excluded from the system are divided and demobilized. In the Dominican case, Haitian immigration divides the popular sector while Dominicans abroad sustain ties to the parties, with both migration flows facilitating party system continuity.
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Afi Quinn, Rachel. "Spinning the Zoetrope." Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1, no. 3 (July 2019): 44–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.130005.
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Over the last decade, Dominican American Hollywood actress Zoe Saldaña has graced countless magazine covers and starred in numerous blockbuster films viewed worldwide. Her mixed-race body and her ability to visually represent both black and Latina identity have had broad appeal in the global marketplace. This transnational feminist cultural studies analysis of Saldaña as text argues that narratives of her racial identity as Dominican and her resulting racial malleability allow viewers to project a wide range of racialized fantasies onto her Afro-Latina body. It proposes that the fact that Saldaña’s blackness is in flux, depending on where she is read and whether she is read by US or Dominican racial logics, makes her that much more provocative to viewers. Ethnographic notes on her reception in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, illustrate the shifting significance of her identity as her image crosses borders. Examinations of Saldaña in print advertising, on Calvin Klein’s interactive website, and in the films Avatar (2009) and The Losers (2010) reveal how her racialized femininity can be mobilized as well as customized for viewers as they choose how to interpret her racial meaning. Saldaña’s visual ambiguity in black-and-white advertising has now been transformed into the ambiguity of exoticized nonhuman species and performed under blue and green makeup. Nevertheless, narratives about her identity that viewers carry shape how she is read and desired, even as an alien from an intergalactic future. RESUMEN Durante la última década, la actriz de Hollywood Zoe Saldaña, dominicano-estadounidense, ha aparecido en innumerables portadas de revistas y ha protagonizado numerosas películas de gran éxito vistas en todo el mundo. Según se ha visto, su cuerpo de raza mixta y su capacidad de representar visualmente tanto la identidad negra como la latina tienen un gran atractivo en el mercado global. En el presente análisis de Saldaña como texto, que se fundamenta teóricamente en el feminismo transnacional y los estudios culturales, sostengo que las narrativas de la identidad racial de Saldaña como dominicana, y su resultante maleabilidad racial, permiten al público proyectar una gran variedad de fantasías racializadas sobre su cuerpo afrolatino. Sostengo que el hecho de que la negritud de Saldaña sea de difícil definición la hace tanto más provocativa para el público espectador, ya que depende de dónde la lean y de si la leen las lógicas raciales estadounidenses o dominicanas. Algunas notas etnográficas sobre su recepción en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, constituyen un ejemplo de cómo cambia su identidad cuando su imagen cruza fronteras. Los análisis de Saldaña en publicidad impresa, en el sitio web interactivo de Calvin Klein y en las películas Avatar (2009) y The Losers (2010) revelan las maneras en que su feminidad racializada puede ser aprovechada y personalizada para un público que decide cómo va a interpretarla en términos raciales. La ambigüedad visual de Saldaña en la publicidad en blanco y negro ahora ha sido transformada en la ambigüedad de especies exóticas no humanas, y ha sido puesta en escena con maquillaje azul y verde. Sin embargo, las ideas preconcebidas que tiene el público sobre su identidad condicionan la manera en que se la lee y se la desea, incluso cuando hace el papel de alienígena de un futuro intergaláctico. RESUMO Na última década, a atriz domínico-americana Zoe Saldaña apareceu na capa de inúmeras revistas e estrelou muitos filmes de sucesso exibidos em todo o mundo. Seu corpo mestiço e sua habilidade de visualmente representar a identidade tanto latina quanto negra demonstraram ter amplo apelo no mercado global. Nesta análise – proveniente dos estudos culturais transnacionais feministas – de Saldaña como texto, eu argumento que as narrativas de sua identidade racial como dominicana e sua resultante maleabilidade racial permitem que espectadores projetem um amplo espectro de fantasias racializadas sobre o seu corpo afro-latino. Eu argumento que o fato de a negritude de Saldaña estar em fluxo, dependendo de onde ela é lida e se ela é lida por lógicas raciais americanas ou dominicanas, a torna tanto mais provocativa aos espectadores. Anotações etnográficas sobre sua recepção em Santo Domingo, na República Dominicana, ilustram a mudança de significado de sua identidade à medida que sua imagem cruza as fronteiras. Averiguação sobre Saldaña em publicidade impressa, no site interativo da Calvin Klein e nos filmes Avatar (2009) e Os Perdedores (2010), revelam os modos pelos quais sua feminilidade racializada pode ser mobilizada, assim como customizada, por espectadores ao passo que eles escolhem como interpretar seu significado racial. A ambiguidade visual de Saldaña na publicidade em preto e branco é agora transformada na ambiguidade de um espécie não-humana exoticizada e performada sob maquiagem azul e verde. No entanto, narrativas sobre sua identidade que o espectador carrega informam como ela está sendo lida e desejada, mesmo como uma alienígena do futuro intergaláctico.
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Poinar, George O. "A fossil palm bruchid, Caryobruchus dominicanus sp. n. (Pachymerini: Bruchidae) in Dominican amber." Insect Systematics & Evolution 30, no. 2 (1999): 219–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631200x00255.
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AbstractPoinar Jr, G. O.: A fossil palm bruchid, Caryobruchus dominicanus sp. n. (Pachymerini: Bruchidae) in Dominican amber. Ent. scand. 30: 219-224. Copenhagen, Denmark. July 1999. ISSN 0013-8711. The first fossil palm bruchid, Caryobruchus dominicanus sp. n. (Coleoptera; Bruchidae) is described from Dominican Republic amber. This species is closely related to extant Central American-West Indian members of the genus, all of which develop in the seeds of palms. Aside from providing indirect evidence of fan palms, especially those of the genus Sabal, in the original Dominican amber forest, the present find shows that seed predation by Caryobruchus spp. was established in the West Indies some 15-45 million years ago.
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Davidson, Christina Cecelia. "Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a Nation." Church History 89, no. 1 (March 2020): 74–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640720000013.
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AbstractThis article examines North Atlantic views of Protestant missions and race in the Dominican Republic between 1905 and 1911, a brief period of political stability in the years leading up to the U.S. Occupation (1916–1924). Although Protestant missions during this period remained small in scale on the Catholic island, the views of British and American missionaries evidence how international perceptions of Dominicans transformed in the early twentieth century. Thus, this article makes two key interventions within the literature on Caribbean race and religion. First, it shows how outsiders’ ideas about the Dominican Republic's racial composition aimed to change the Dominican Republic from a “black” country into a racially ambiguous “Latin” one on the international stage. Second, in using North Atlantic missionaries’ perspectives to track this shift, it argues that black-led Protestant congregations represented a possible alternative future that both elite Dominicans and white North Atlantic missionaries rejected.
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Cranford, Hannah M., Tulay Koru-Sengul, Gilberto Lopes, and Paulo S. Pinheiro. "Lung Cancer Incidence by Detailed Race–Ethnicity." Cancers 15, no. 7 (April 5, 2023): 2164. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers15072164.
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Lung cancer (LC) incidence rates and tumor characteristics among (non-Hispanic) Black and Hispanic detailed groups, normally characterized in aggregate, have been overlooked in the US. We used LC data from the Florida state cancer registry, 2012–2018, to compute LC age-adjusted incidence rates (AAIR) for US-born Black, Caribbean-born Black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and Central and South American populations. We analyzed 120,550 total LC cases. Among Hispanics, Cuban males had the highest AAIR (65.6 per 100,000; 95%CI: 63.6–67.6), only 8% [Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR): 0.92; 95%CI: 0.89–0.95] lower than Whites, but 2.7 (IRR 95%CI: 2.31-3.19) times higher than Central Americans. Among Blacks, the AAIR for US-born Black males was over three times that of those Caribbean-born (IRR: 3.12; 95%CI: 2.80–3.40) and 14% higher than White males (IRR: 1.14; 95%CI: 1.11–1.18). Among women, US-born Blacks (46.4 per 100,000) and foreign-born Mexicans (12.2 per 100,000) had the highest and lowest rates. Aggregation of non-Hispanic Blacks or Hispanics obscures inherent disparities within groups. Understanding the distinct LC rates in US populations is crucial for targeting public health measures for LC diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Further LC research exploring detailed race–ethnicity regarding LC in never-smokers is necessary, particularly among females and considering pertinent environmental factors.
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Brinkerhoff, Cristina Araujo, C. Eduardo Siqueira, Rosalyn Negrón, Natalicia Tracy, Magalis Troncoso Lama, and Linda Sprague Martinez. "‘There You Enjoy Life, Here You Work’: Brazilian and Dominican Immigrants’ Views on Work and Health in the U.S." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 20 (October 21, 2019): 4025. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16204025.
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Structural inequalities in the U.S. work environment place most immigrants in low paying, high-risk jobs. Understanding how work experiences and influence the health of different immigrant populations is essential to address disparities. This article explores how Brazilian and Dominican immigrants feel about their experiences working in the U.S. and how the relationship between work and culture might impact their health. In partnership with the Dominican Development Center and the Brazilian Worker Center, we held five cultural conversations (CCs) with Brazilians (n = 48) and five with Dominicans (n = 40). CCs are participatory, unstructured groups facilitated by representatives from or embedded in the community. Brazilian immigrants focused on physical health and the American Dream while Dominicans immigrants emphasized concerns about the influence of work on mental health. Dominicans’ longer tenure in the U.S. and differences in how Brazilians and Dominicans are racialized in the region might account for the variation in perspectives between groups. Future studies should further investigate the relationship between health and how immigrants’ work lives are shaped by culture, race and immigrant status.
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Klein, Alan M. "Baseball as Underdevelopment: The Political-Economy of Sport in the Dominican Republic." Sociology of Sport Journal 6, no. 2 (June 1989): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.6.2.95.
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This study examines the political-economy of baseball in the Dominican Republic from a critical perspective. As such, the presence of American major league teams is seen to have a deleterious structural effect on the autonomy and quality of baseball in the Dominican Republic. In particular, in attempting to develop the game, U.S. interests—like those of other multinationals—are underdeveloping the game. A second dimension to this study views baseball as an American popular cultural form that functions to soften the regular, hostile responses of Dominicans to American political and economic domination of their country. Thus, while serving to reproduce U.S. control, baseball takes on the appearance of a benevolent, even helpful, cultural institution.
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Lee, Sara. "Love Sees No Color or Boundaries? Interethnic Dating and Marriage Patterns of Dominican and CEP (Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian) Americans." Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies 2, no. 1 (January 2006): 84–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.18085/llas.2.1.kn064nl16q828024.
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BERTHOLD, DENNIS. ""The Italian Turn Of Thought"." Nineteenth-Century Literature 59, no. 3 (December 1, 2004): 340–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2004.59.3.340.
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Studies of Herman Melville's epic poem Clarel (1876) have understandably emphasized the work's theological content. When studied in its immediate historical context, however, the poem's multiple references to Rome and Catholicism take on speci�c political meanings, particularly those centered in the Risorgimento, Italy's century-long quest for independence and unity. In 1870, when Melville began to write the poem, the Risorgimento achieved its �nal goal, making Rome Italy's capital and stripping the Pope of his temporal power. Melville, like many Americans, supported Italy's moderate, anti-papal, nationalistic ideals, and in Clarel he embodied them in the Roman orphan Celio. Celio represents skepticism, present experience, and historical circumstance in opposition both to the intolerant religious politics of orthodox Catholicism (represented in the poem by Brother Salvaterra and the Dominican priest) and the violent extremism of secular revolutionists (represented by Mortmain and Ungar). Through Celio, Melville offers a trans-national perspective on issues of nationhood by engaging speci�c current events and critiquing those who substitute failed ideologies for the uncertainties of experience.
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Geraldino-Pardilla, L., T. Kapoor, I. Canto, T. Perez-Recio, J. Then, C. Tineo, E. Loyo, and A. Askanase. "Damage accrual in systemic lupus erythematosus in Dominicans in New York City and the Dominican Republic." Lupus 27, no. 12 (August 9, 2018): 1989–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961203318791764.
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Objectives Hispanics with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the United States have more severe disease and damage accrual compared with whites. Data on Hispanics of similar ancestry in geographically different locations is limited but essential in defining genetic and environmental factors for SLE. This study evaluates SLE disease burden in two Dominican communities, Washington Heights in New York City (NYC) and Santiago in the Dominican Republic (DR). Methods Disease activity (SLE Disease Activity Index 2000 (SLEDAI-2K)) and damage (Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/American College of Rheumatology Damage Index (SDI)) were cross-sectionally measured in 76 Dominican SLE patients from the Columbia University Lupus Cohort in NYC and compared with 75 Dominican SLE patients living in Santiago in the DR. Results Mean (±SD) age was 40 (±14) and 36 (±11) years for NYC and DR patients, respectively. Median disease duration was 8 years. Disease activity was mild in both groups (SLEDAI-2K of 3 in NYC versus 4 in the DR). NYC Dominicans had more discoid lesions, positive anti-dsDNA, and anti-SSB antibodies. Dominicans in the DR used more corticosteroids, had less medical insurance, lower educational level, and were more likely to be unemployed, whereas more Dominicans in NYC smoked. NYC patients had a higher SDI compared with SLE patients in the DR (0.96 versus 0.24, p < 0.0001). Statistical significance was maintained in adjusted analysis (1.26 versus 0.57, p < 0.0001). Conclusion SLE Dominican patients in NYC had a higher SDI than those in the DR. Longitudinal studies are needed to ascertain whether this difference is due to biological, environmental factors, immigration patterns or a survival bias.
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Paulino, Edward. "National politics and ethnic identity in the Dominican Republic." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 76, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2002): 105–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002548.
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[First paragraph]The Struggle of Democratie Politics in the Dominican Republic. JONATHAN HARTLYN. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xxi + 371 pp. (Cloth US$ 49.95, Paper US$ 17.95)Holocaust in the Caribbean: The Slaughter of 25,000 Haitians by Trujillo in One Week. MIGUEL AQUINO. Waterbury CT: Emancipation Press, 1997. xxii +184 pp. (Paper n.p.)Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic. ERNESTO SAGAS. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. xii +161 pp. (Cloth US$ 49.95)Azücar, Arabes, cocolos y haitianos. ORLANDO INOA. Santo Domingo: Ed. Cole and FLACSO, 1999. 219 pp. (Paper n.p.)Over the last few years there has been an increase in the publication of books about the Dominican Republic and Dominicans in the United States. This can be partly attributed to the increase of Dominican communities.1 Moreover, Dominican and Dominican-American writers who underscore the trials and tribulations of the immigrant experience are becoming more visible in the mainstream print.2
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Lamar, Melissa, Ramon A. Durazo-Arvizu, Carlos J. Rodriguez, Robert C. Kaplan, Marisa J. Perera, Jianwen Cai, Rebeca A. Espinoza Giacinto, Hector M. González, and Martha L. Daviglus. "Associations of Lipid Levels and Cognition: Findings from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 26, no. 3 (September 23, 2019): 251–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617719001000.
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AbstractObjective:Hispanics/Latinos in the United States are less aware of their cholesterol levels and have a higher burden of associated adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular outcomes than non-Latino whites. Investigations of the associations between cholesterol levels and cognition in this population have often occurred within the context of metabolic syndrome and are limited to select lipids despite the fact that triglycerides (TGs) may be more relevant to the health of Hispanics/Latinos.Methods:Baseline data from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, collected from 2008 to 2011, was used to investigate the associations of lipid levels (i.e., TG, total cholesterol, TC; low-density and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C and HDL-C) with cognition (i.e., learning, memory, verbal fluency, and digit symbol substitution, DSS), adjusting for relevant confounders.Results:In 7413 participants ages 45 to 74 years from Central American, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and South American backgrounds, separate, fully adjusted linear regression models revealed that TG levels were inversely associated with DSS performance; however, this relationship was no longer significant once additional cardiovascular disease risk factors were added to the model (p = .06). TC and LDL-C levels (separately) were positively associated with learning and verbal fluency regardless of adjustments (p-values < .05). Separate analyses investigating the effect modification by background and sex revealed a particularly robust association between TC levels and DSS performance for Puerto Ricans and Central Americans (albeit in opposite directions) and an inverse relationship between TG levels and DSS performance for women (p-values < .02).Conclusions:It is important to consider individual lipid levels and demographic characteristics when investigating associations between cholesterol levels and cognition in Hispanics/Latinos.
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Candelario, Ginetta E. B. ""Black Behind the Ears"——and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic." Public Historian 23, no. 4 (2001): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2001.23.4.55.
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This article considers the formation and representation of Washington, D.C.'s Dominican community in the Anacostia Museum's 1994 -1995 exhibit, Black Mosaic: Community, Race and Ethnicity Among Black Immigrants in D.C. The exhibit successfully pointed to the extensive historical presence of African Diaspora peoples in Latin America and explored the development of subsequent Diaspora from those communities into Washington, D.C. The case of Dominican immigrants to D.C., however, illustrates the continued privileging of a U.S.- or Anglo-centric ideation of African-American history and identity. I argue that a more accurate and politically useful formulation would call for an understanding that the African Diaspora first arrived in what would become Santo Domingo and was constitutive of Latin America several centuries before the arrival of Anglo colonizers and the formation of what would become the United States; that slavery was a polyfacetic institution that articulated with particular colonial and imperial systems and local economies in the Americas in ways that subsequently influenced racial orders and identities in multiple ways, both at home and in Diaspora; and that Dominicans' negotiations of the competing demands of blackness and Latinidad make these points especially salient.
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Silva, Lara Portella da. "DESLOCAMENTOS IDENTITÁRIOS NO ROMANCE HOW THE GARCÍA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS DE JULIA ALVAREZ." Miguilim - Revista Eletrônica do Netlli 11, no. 2 (August 26, 2022): 702–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.47295/mgren.v11i2.385.
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Os estudos de literaturas de fluxos migratórios procuram investigar os efeitos do deslocamento espacial e cultural em imigrantes e como as suas vidas são afetadas pelo contexto sociocultural em que estão inseridos. No romance How The García Girls Lost Their Accents, as histórias de vida de uma família dominicana-americana são abordadas com enfoque nas personagens Carla, Sandra, Yolanda e Sofía, as irmãs, cujas identidades são o eixo de estudo do artigo. O texto contempla a forçada mutação de identidades, o que tem como causa o ambiente espacial e o contexto social norte-americano. O presente artigo pretende trazer uma interpretação sobre os fenômenos que contribuíram tanto para as tentativas de construção das identidades americanas como para o apagamento das identidades dominicanas das meninas. Utiliza-se o aporte teórico de textos que abordam os estudos culturais a fim de analisar os temas centrais do enredo da obra ficcional. Assim, será demonstrado como as meninas García sofrem o processo de descentralização de si mesmas como consequência do deslocamento identitário pelo qual passam, resultando na fragmentação do “eu” de cada uma.
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Arbino, Daniel. "“Together We’re Strong:” Cross-Cultural Solidarity in Angie Cruz’s Dominicana." Latin American Literary Review 49, no. 99 (September 9, 2022): 30–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.26824/lalr.250.
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In this article, I examine how Dominican American author Angie Cruz’s novel Dominicana (2019) uses the bildungsroman genre to point to cross-cultural solidarity, or different communities working in tandem, to contest hegemonic discourse. Cruz’s take on a bildungsroman has an interesting inflection that juxtaposes learning and unlearning in two different societies (Dominican and American) where lessons do not inform each other. Because Cruz's main protagonist Ana’s sense of Self develops alongside her civic engagement, I argue that it is useful to think of Dominicana as a feminist bildungsroman. Along with her brother-in-law César, Ana searches for change through relationality and intercultural empathy as vehicles toward larger community engagement that shares a common plight. Due to her peripheral positionality as an undocumented, non-English-speaking Person of Color in 1960s New York, she finds a location of identity within an alternative community of African American and white protestors, whose intersection is of class and political beliefs. My goal is not to overlook or minimize differences between groups, differences that have, at times, been contentious, but rather to emphasize that Cruz’s sense of belonging is guided by increased engagement in alternative communities that share in her alienation. Utilizing a theoretical lens grounded in the works of Jill Toliver Richardson, Rita Felski, and Amy Cummins and Myra Infante-Sheridan, I conclude that for Cruz, intercultural empathy and alternative communities are viable paths toward resisting the American national community that presents itself as an unattainable model of assimilation.
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Santana, Nelson, Emmauel Espinal, and Amaury Rodriguez. "Transnational Dominican Activism." International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) 6, no. 4 (January 25, 2023): 47–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v6i4.38944.
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Dominican-descended people in the United States are one of the most dynamic Spanish-speaking, Caribbean, and Latin American ethnic and cultural communities in the United States. Whether in the Dominican Republic or as members of a transnational community, the Dominican population is one with a long and rich history of challenging the powers that be, unjust acts, and oppressive laws within the communities they inhabit through their civic engagement. This essay aims to address one question: as Dominican society and the world have largely evolved, what has been the role of U.S.-based online media in sustaining, disseminating and rescuing the long tradition of civic involvement and struggle exemplified by Dominicans at home and abroad? To answer that question, we explore the role of the ongoing online Dominican-centric magazine ESENDOM to demonstrate how online journalism documents activism within the Dominican community. ESENDOM and similar media have filled gaps that the mainstream media has failed to fulfill as there is a media blackout on the Dominican Republic and its people. This project is one about activism. This humanistic project documents some of the most important social movements to take place in the Dominican Republic and the United States in the past thirteen years (2009-2022), coinciding with the founding of ESENDOM in 2009. This project will present a timeline and an attempt to chart a chronology of political dissent and social struggles within Dominican communities in the United States and the Dominican Republic.
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Dueker, Nicole D., David Della-Morte, Tatjana Rundek, Ralph L. Sacco, and Susan H. Blanton. "Sickle Cell Trait and Renal Function in Hispanics in the United States: the Northern Manhattan Study." Ethnicity & Disease 27, no. 1 (January 19, 2017): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.18865/ed.27.1.11.
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<p class="Pa7">Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a common hematological disorder among individuals of African descent in the United States; the disorder results in the production of abnormal hemoglobin. It is caused by homozygosity for a genetic mutation in HBB; rs334. While the presence of a single mutation (sickle cell trait, SCT) has long been considered a benign trait, recent research suggests that SCT is associated with renal dysfunction, including a decrease in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in African Americans. It is currently unknown whether similar associations are observed in Hispanics. Therefore, our study aimed to determine if SCT is associated with mean eGFR and CKD in a sample of 340 Dominican Hispanics from the Northern Manhattan Study. Using regression analyses, we tested rs334 for association with eGFR and CKD, adjusting for age and sex. eGFR was estimated using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation and CKD was defined as eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2. Within our sample, there were 16 individuals with SCT (SCT carriers). We found that SCT carriers had a mean eGFR that was 12.12 mL/min/1.73m2 lower than non-carriers (P=.002). Additionally, SCT carriers had 2.72 times higher odds of CKD compared with non-carriers (P=.09). Taken together, these novel results show that Hispanics with SCT, as found among African Americans with SCT, may also be at increased risk for kidney disease.</p><p class="Pa7"><em>Ethn Dis. </em>2017; 27(1)<strong>:</strong>11-14; doi:10.18865/ed.27.1.11.</p><p class="Pa7"> </p>
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D’Oleo, Dixa Ramírez. "Mushrooms and Mischief: On Questions of Blackness." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 23, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 152–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703392.
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This response essay argues that the hyperfocus on what defines appropriate behavior among Afro-descended populations issues from structural white supremacy. One of the messages in the author’s Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (2018) is that efforts against antiblackness (and a concomitant anti-Haitianness) in the Dominican Republic cannot be accompanied by the tired chastisement that Dominicans do not perform their African descent in ways appealing to the US gaze. In other words, the faster we can accept that subjects of the African diaspora have been damaged by white supremacy and colonialism differently, the faster we can figure out how to sprout out of the rotting episteme created by Man. Plants can and do grow from rot.
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Pinheiro, Paulo S., Qinran Liu, Heidy Medina, Hannah M. Cranford, Stuart Joseph Herna, Estelamari Rodriguez, and Gilberto Lopes. "Disparities in the prevalence of EGFR mutations and ALK rearrangements by racial-ethnic group in South Florida with a focus on Hispanic patients, 2011-2019." Journal of Clinical Oncology 42, no. 16_suppl (June 1, 2024): e20528-e20528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2024.42.16_suppl.e20528.
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e20528 Background: We examined the prevalence and survival outcomes of EGFR+, ALK+, and receipt of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKIs), among all 1,654 patients diagnosed with de novo advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) during 2011-2019 in 2 predominantly Hispanic healthcare institutions in South Florida: Sylvester Cancer Center and University of Miami Hospital. Methods: Tumor registry data was linked with genomic databases. Electronic medical records were further reviewed. We employed Cox regression to assess survival outcomes among patients with documented EGFR+ and ALK+ results. Results: There were 748 Hispanics, 697 Non-Hispanic (NH)-Whites, 173 NH-Blacks, 32 Asians, and 4 other race patients in our study. The overall prevalence for EGFR+ and ALK+ was 11.1% and 1.3%, respectively. During the study period, as many as 16.7% and 4.1% of all patients received either EGFR- or ALK-targeting TKIs, respectively. EGFR+ prevalence varied among racial groups, with 11.3% in NH-Whites, 9.8% in NH-Blacks, 10.7% in Hispanics, and 25.0% in Asians. Among Florida Hispanics, there were significant variations in EGFR+ results from 7.0-8.1% in Caribbean Hispanics (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic) to 14.0% among Mexican and Central Americans, and 22.9% among South Americans (p < 0.05). Among all 184 patients with EGFR+ results, 43.5% exhibited a deletion 19 mutation, 26.1% had an L838R mutation, 17.4% had an unspecified targetable mutation, and 13.0% had rarer mutation types. Notably, the proportion of never-smokers varied significantly by studied group: 13.8% among NH-Whites, 36.4% among South Americans, 41.9% Mexicans and Central Americans, and 62.5% among Asians (p < 0.05). Much of the inter-racial and intra-ethnic variation in EGFR+ prevalence could be attributed to smoking status, with more similar proportions observed when comparing never-smokers and ever-smokers separately. The ALK+ prevalence ranged from 0.9% in NH-Whites, 1.3% among Hispanics, 2.3% among NH-Blacks, to 6.3% in Asians. Both EGFR+ and ALK+ were more prevalent among non-smokers and women. Still, smokers accounted for approximately half of all targetable mutations for both EGFR+ (90 never-smokers; 94 smokers) and ALK+ (12 never-smokers; 10 smokers). After adjusting for age group, sex, smoking status, and race-ethnicity, both EGFR+ and ALK+ NSCLC subtypes exhibited a lower risk of death over time compared to EGFR-/ALK- cases (EGFR+ aHR 0.68 95%CI 0.56-0.81; ALK+ aHR: 0.41 95%CI 0.23-0.73). Conclusions: Smoking status significantly impacts the documented varying prevalence of EGFR+ and ALK+ by race-ethnicity. TKIs were extensively used in 2011-2019 even without evidence of targetable mutations. Current/history of smoking should not prevent the study of EGFR+/ALK+ mutations/rearrangements. Patients with targetable mutations experienced significantly improved survival outcomes.
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Maillo-Pozo, Sharina. "Resisting Colonial Ghosts." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 23, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 132–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703368.
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Through a discussion of Dixa Ramírez’s Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (2018), this essay highlights and expands on the ways Dominican and Dominican American women have negotiated, resisted, and refused their historical obliteration in Western imaginaries. Three questions guide the commentary: How have Afro-Dominican women been ghosted from national building projects in both the Dominican Republic and the United States? How have Afro-Dominican women writers and performers refused traditional understandings of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and nationality? How do the works of these women remind us that silences, omissions, and exclusions from dominant narratives are irresolute forms of violence executed and perpetuated by Western powers and constantly replicated by the Dominican intellectual and economic elite?
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DURÁN-ALMARZA, EMILIA MARÍA. "Ciguapas in New York: Transcultural Ethnicity and Transracialization in Dominican American Performance." Journal of American Studies 46, no. 1 (February 2012): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875811001332.
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The Dominican American community in New York is perhaps one of the best examples of how processes of transculturation are affecting traditional definitions of ethnic identification. Given the intense economic, social and cultural transnational exchanges between the island and the USA from the 1960s, Dominicanyorks have been challenging the illusion of homogeneity in the definition of Americanness for decades, creating transnational social networks that transcend traditional national and ethnographic boundaries. The theatrical works of Josefina Báez, a Dominican American performer living in New York, and Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso, a Dominican poet and playwright who lived and worked in the US metropolis for decades before moving back to the Dominican Republic, lyrically explore issues of diaspora, identity and migration and the impact these phenomena might have in the lives of migrant Dominican women. Presenting diasporic experiences from two differing but interconnected locales – New York and the Dominican Republic – these plays offer two complementary views on the ways in which ethnicity, race, social class, age and geopolitical location interact in the formation of transcultural identities, thus contributing to develop a hemispheric approach to the study of identity formation in the Americas.
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Garcia, Joshua M., Jai Sehgal, and Luis D. Medina. "19 The Relationship Between Apathy and Cognitive Impairment Among Hispanic/Latin Americans: A Systematic Review." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 29, s1 (November 2023): 433–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617723005702.
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Objective:Evaluate measures used to operationalize apathy in relation to cognitive impairment among Hispanic/Latin Americans and synthesize associations of apathy with cognitive impairment.Participants and Methods:A systematic review of the available literature following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines was conducted. This review covered studies on the relationship between apathy and cognitive impairment among Hispanic/Latin Americans across normal aging and neurocognitive disorders. The first stage of the review consisted of collecting all publications that contained (1) English or Spanish-speaking participants, (2) with measures for reported apathy, (3) assessment of cognitive functioning or diagnosis of neurocognitive disorder, (4) with Hispanic/Latin Americans represented in the sample. There was no limit regarding publication date. The required minimum of H/L participants in selected studies was determined based on a standard of representation in the United States general population, which is around 18.5%. In the second stage of the review, studies were screened excluding all studies that did not meet the criteria.Results:Thirteen, 37, and 17 studies were identified by APA PsychInfo, EMBASE, and PubMed, respectively. After removing 19 duplicate records, 48 reports were then assessed for eligibility. Thirty-five of those reports were missing apathy and cognition associations, were under-reported in information such as conference abstracts, or were missing adequate representation of H/L participants. This resulted in a total of 13 papers included in this review. Of the eleven cross-sectional studies, nine demonstrated significant differences or associations between apathy and cognitive status, one demonstrated a descriptive difference between apathy and cognitive status (i.e., no hypothesis test conducted), while one demonstrated null effects. All effects suggested that as apathy increased, cognitive impairment increased. These cross-sectional studies spanned across Säo Paulo, Brazil, Los Angeles, California, West Texas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Southwestern United States. This included community and clinic samples of participants. Of the two longitudinal studies, they both demonstrated non-significant associations of apathy and cognitive status. One study in Mexico suggested a risk ratio over 1 where apathy was non-significantly associated with dementia risk, while the other study in Texas, United States had hazard ratios below 1 where apathy was non-significantly associated with mild cognitive impairment risk.Conclusions:The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) apathy subscale was the most used measure for apathy in this review (81.8% of included studies). However, a recent systematic review on apathy measurement in older adults and people with dementia specifically stated that the apathy dimension commonly used in the NPI should not be employed outside of screening for apathy. This suggests potential bias and poor evidence in the current literature consisting of apathy research with H/Ls. Longitudinal studies evaluating the utility of examining apathy in relation to cognitive impairment with diverse ethnoracial groups, in addition to Hispanic/Latin Americans, are warranted. Assessing construct equivalence of apathy across demographic characteristics such as language, education, and informant characteristics should be conducted to elucidate potential biases in measurement.
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Scopinho, Sávio Carlos Desan. "O laicato na Conferência Episcopal Latino-americana de Santo Domingo." Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira 73, no. 291 (October 22, 2018): 575–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.29386/reb.v73i291.609.
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Este artigo estuda a compreensão do Magistério Eclesiástico sobre o laicato na Quarta Conferência Episcopal Latino-americana, realizada em Santo Domingo (República Dominicana), no ano de 1992. Essa Conferência propôs a continuidade da reflexão sobre o laicato, a partir de sua missão e vocação na Igreja e no mundo, focada nos documentos eclesiásticos e na prática pastoral desenvolvida pela Igreja na América Latina. Portanto, a proposta deste artigo é oferecer uma visão diacrônica e sincrônica da Conferência, tendo como referência seu Documento Conclusivo, com enfoque na temática do laicato. Assim, pretende-se demonstrar que o leigo, na concepção do Magistério Eclesiástico latino-americano, teve uma evolução histórica e doutrinal, com desafios e fragilidades, mas, ao mesmo tempo, com fé e esperança, próprios de sua condição eclesial e social, constatada nas etapas de preparação, realização e aplicação da Conferência. A interpretação teológica e pastoral do Documento Conclusivo contribuirá para entender o desenvolvimento da temática, retomando os resultados das Conferências Episcopais latino-americanas do Rio de Janeiro (1955), de Medellín (1968) e de Puebla (1979), e servirá como referência para a preparação da Conferência de Aparecida (2007), que também refletirá sobre a atuação do laicato na Igreja e na sociedade.Abstract: This article studies the Ecclesiastical Magisterium understanding about the laity in the Fourth Latin American Episcopal Conference held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1992. This Conference proposed the continuation of the reflection on the laity, from their mission and vocation in the Church and in the world, having its focus on the ecclesiastical documents and on the pastoral practice developed by the Church in the Latin America. Therefore, the proposal is to offer a diachronic and synchronic view of the Conference, considering its Conclusive Document as reference, with regard to the subject matter of the laity. This way, it’s intended to demonstrate that the layman, in the Latin American Ecclesiastical Magisterium conception, has had a historical and doctrinal progress, with challenges and fragilities, but at the same time with faith and hope, typical of its ecclesial and social condition, verified in the preparation, accomplishment and deliberation steps of the respective Conference. The theological and pastoral interpretation of the Conclusive Document will contribute to understand the development of the referred subject matter, resuming the results of the Latin American Episcopal Conferences of Rio de Janeiro (1955), Medellín (1968) and Puebla (1979), and it will be useful as reference for the preparation of the Aparecida Conference (2007), that will also reflect on the performance of the laity in the Church and in the society.Keywords: Santo Domingo Conference. Latin American Bishops. Laity. Theology of the laity. Vocation.
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Kamal, Assist Prof Hadel Adil. "Analisis personal del dictador en la novela la fiesta del Chivo." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 218, no. 1 (November 9, 2018): 72–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v218i1.527.
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La Fiesta del Chivo is a story novel that portrays the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic . Dictatorships have unfortunately been a constant feature in our continent This phenomenon also called Latin American caudillo has permeated the history of blood and violation of human rights . Usually of a dictatorship it is usually the result of a process of profound social upheaval and typically occurs through a military move against the power structures previously established movement that takes the form of coup. Terror and fascination of all Dominicans Trujillo and the facade of legality which is constructed to maintain an image of "democracy" against other states are observed in the novel , which is closely related to the question of the " crisis of sovereignty."
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Graziano, Matthew James, and Marika Maris. "“I Couldn’t Say My Own Name:” Identity Narratives of Dominican American Women." American Journal of Qualitative Research 8, no. 1 (January 22, 2024): 198–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.29333/ajqr/14139.
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<i>The purpose of this article is to speak directly to the paucity of research regarding Dominican American women and identity narratives. To do so, this article uses the Listening Guide Method of Qualitative Inquiry (Gilligan, et al., 2006) to explore how 1.5 and second-generation Dominican American women narrated their experiences of individual identity within American cultural contexts and constructs. The results draw from the emergence of themes across six participant interviews and showed two distinct voices: The Voice of Cultural Explanation and the Tides of Dominican American Female Identity. Narrative examples from five participants are offered to illustrate where 1.5 and second-generation Dominican American women negotiate their identity narratives at the intersection of their Dominican and American selves. The article offers two conclusions. One, that participant women use the Voice of Cultural Explanation in order to discuss their identity as reflected within the broad cultural tensions of their daily lives. Two, that the Tides of Dominican American Female Identity are used to express strong emotions that manifest within their personal narratives as the unwanted distance from either the Dominican or American parts of their person.</i>
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Kim, Victor, Wei Wang, David Mannino, and Alejandro Diaz. "Association of birthplace and occupational exposures with chronic bronchitis in US Hispanics/Latinos, 2008–2011." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 77, no. 5 (March 12, 2020): 344–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2019-106081.
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ObjectivesIn the US, chronic bronchitis (CB) is common and is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Data on CB in the Hispanic/Latino population—a large, diverse US minority—are scarce. We aimed to test whether the prevalence of CB varies across Hispanic/Latino heritages and to identify CB risk factors, including occupational exposures, in this population.MethodsWe analysed data from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, a US population-based probability sample of participants aged 18–74 years (n=16 415) including those with Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Central American and South American heritages. Participants who had a completed respiratory questionnaire and valid spirometric data were included in the analysis (n=13 259). CB, place of birth, heritage, occupational exposures and other risk factors were based on standardised questionnaires. The prevalence of CB was estimated using survey logistic regression-conditional marginal analysis.ResultsThe estimated (mean (95% CI)) overall adjusted prevalence of CB was 12.1% (9.3 to 15.6), with a large variation across heritages. Dominican heritage had a fivefold higher prevalence than South American heritage. US-born participants had a higher adjusted prevalence than their non-US-born counterparts (16.8% (12.5 to 22.1) vs 11.0% (8.5 to 14.10); p=0.022). Compared with non-exposed participants, those exposed to cleaning or disinfecting solutions had a higher adjusted prevalence of CB (12.6% (9.1 to 17.1) vs 11.8% (9.2 to 15.1); p=0.024).ConclusionsThe prevalence of CB was higher among Dominicans than other Hispanic/Latino heritages. CB was more prevalent among US-born participants and those exposed to cleaning and disinfecting solutions.