| Description |
xxi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The new Americans, 1092-6364 |
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New Americans (Westport, Conn.)
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| Contents |
Introduction: A Brief Historical Background -- The Land -- The Native Inhabitants -- The Conquest -- The African Population -- Roots of Dominicanness -- Precarious Autonomy -- U.S.-Dominican Relations: An Age-Old Romance -- The Rediscovery of Dominicans -- Dominican Familiarity with the United States -- American Ideas and the Birth of the Dominican State -- American Agents in Santo Domingo -- American Idylls in the Dominican Land -- Bringing Dominicans into the Union -- Dominican Blackness and Frederick Douglass -- Dominicans in an American Protectorate -- Americans Governing Dominicans: 1916-1924 -- Dominicans Americanized -- The Dominican Exodus -- Escape from the Native Land -- A Continuous Exodus -- Who Are the Immigrants? -- The Making of a Migratory Movement -- Restructuring the Dominican Economy -- Stability, Family Planning, and Emigration -- Economic Growth and Surplus Population -- Modernization and Import Substitution -- The Cattle-Agricultural Sector -- Economic Changes -- Accumulation and Crisis -- The Great Escape -- Dominicans in the United States: The Rise of a Community -- Labor Market Experience -- Prior to Migration -- Distribution of Dominican Workers -- Occupations and Earnings -- Employment, Unemployment, Outcomes -- Education and Residential Patterns -- Dominicans in Business -- Who Are the Business Owners? -- Assessing the Business Sector -- Voluntary Associations -- Membership and Participation -- Social Function -- Professionals and Advocacy -- Education -- Health Issues -- Drugs and Violence. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-171) and index. |
| Subject |
Dominican Americans.
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| Added Author |
Hernández, Ramona.
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| ISBN |
0313298394 alkaline paper |
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