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| Author | : Jocelyn Santana |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
In Dominican Dream, American Reality, Jocelyn Santana narrates her cultural and linguistic journey from a Dominican immigrant English learner to a Dominican American English professor. She highlights the role of writing in her language learning. In 1980, Jocelyn joins her mother in New York City full of dreams and no English. By 1999, she has a earned a Ph.D. in English Education and has become part of the American middle-class. She recounts the gains and loses of her Americanization and her obsession to master English "to make it." It is an inspiring story that shows the strength of a Dominican adolescent and her realization of the American Dream with English and in English.
| Author | : Students Bronx Business |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2015-05-23 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1329138988 |
This collection of narratives captures the rich and diverse experiences of students from all over the world, transitioning into life in New York City. These young authors offer their tears and sorrows of the past, as well as the hopes, dreams and goals they have for their futures.
| Author | : Anne Gallin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781878554192 |
Articles and poems about Dominican Republic economic conditions and culture, with Spanish vocabulary lists and suggested activities for students.
| Author | : Dan-el Padilla Peralta |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2015-07-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 069819568X |
An undocumented immigrant’s journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton class Dan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than they imagined. Their visas lapsed, and Dan-el’s father returned home. But Dan-el’s courageous mother was determined to make a better life for her bright sons. Without papers, she faced tremendous obstacles. While Dan-el was only in grade school, the family joined the ranks of the city’s homeless. Dan-el, his mother, and brother lived in a downtown shelter where Dan-el’s only refuge was the meager library. There he met Jeff, a young volunteer from a wealthy family. Jeff was immediately struck by Dan-el’s passion for books and learning. With Jeff’s help, Dan-el was accepted on scholarship to Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country. There, Dan-el thrived. Throughout his youth, Dan-el navigated these two worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where he lived with his brother and his mother and tried to make friends, and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, where he could immerse himself in a world of books and where he soon rose to the top of his class. From Collegiate, Dan-el went to Princeton, where he thrived, and where he made the momentous decision to come out as an undocumented student in a Wall Street Journal profile a few months before he gave the salutatorian’s traditional address in Latin at his commencement. Undocumented is a classic story of the triumph of the human spirit. It also is the perfect cri de coeur for the debate on comprehensive immigration reform. Praise for Undocumented “Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s story is as compulsively readable as a novel, an all-American tall tale that just happens to be true. From homeless shelter to Princeton, Oxford, and Stanford, through the grace not only of his own hard work but his mother’s discipline and care, he documents the America we should still aspire to be.” —Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, President of the New America Foundation
| Author | : Gayle Ann Williams |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2019-02-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1476634718 |
Though still hampered by some challenging obstacles, Latin American collection development is not the static, tradition-bound field many believe it to be. Latin American studies librarians have confronted these difficulties head-on and developed strategies to adapt to the field's continuous digital advancements. Presenting perspectives from several independent Latin American libraries, this collection of new essays covers the history of collecting, current strategies in collection development, collaborative collection development, buying trips, and future trends and new technologies.
| Author | : Mary C. WATERS |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780674044944 |
The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.
| Author | : Angie Cruz |
| Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2019-09-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250205921 |
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction “Through a novel with so much depth, beauty, and grace, we, like Ana, are forever changed.” —Jacqueline Woodson, Vanity Fair “Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story.” —Sandra Cisneros Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by Cesar, Juan’s free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay. As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family’s assets, leaving Cesar to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, see a movie at Radio City Music Hall, go dancing with Cesar, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family. In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Angie Cruz's Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world.
| Author | : Ayendy Bonifacio |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Dominican Americans |
| ISBN | : 9781976456220 |
This book is published by Floricanto Press. www.floricantopress.com "These times demand such acts of courage and skill." -Ana Castillo, author of The Mixquiahuala Letters, So Far From God, and Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma "Dique Dominican is a candid, often moving account of what it was like for a Dominican-American to grow up in East New York . . . His story takes us back to his childhood in a small farm town near Juncalito, about 160 kilometers north of Santo Domingo, records his life in his hood and his move to Ohio in order to continue with his studies. As the author illustrates his family dynamics, the reality of his community, and his attempt to negotiate his way between English and Spanish, sharing with us, at the same time, his personal trajectory, ambitions, and reflections, Ayendy Bonifacio always keeps his own lucidity in front of pain, discrimination, and violence. Never overstated, his account is like a whisper which, however, forcefully demands to be heard." -Maria Cristina Fumagalli, author of Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze and On the Edge: Writing the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic "Language is home-and isn't. It makes room for us, allowing us comfort. Or it proscribes us, sending us into the vertigo of exile. In Dique Dominican, [Bonifacio] gets lost and found as he navigates the interstices where words struggle for meaning. A courageous, Babel-like journey!" -Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language and general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature "A striking account of his journey from the campo in the Dominican Republic to Brooklyn to Ohio, as well as an exploration of independence and transcendence. The vivid details in this memoir portray more than the disparate places traversed, they reveal Bonifacio's own complex internal landscape. Intense, honest and bold." -Erika M. Martínez, editor of Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women AYENDY BONIFACIO is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the Ohio State University. He was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic and raised in East New York, Brooklyn. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio. Dique Dominican is his first book.
| Author | : Ana Roca |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2011-12-06 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0470588985 |
This book develops the communication and literacy skills of heritage Spanish speakers with exercises that are designed to improve oral and written proficiency in the language. Nuevos mundos uses the cultures and voices of the major Hispanic groups in the United States, as well as those of Latin America and Spain, to familiarize students with a variety of issues and topics, which are sometimes controversial and always thought-provoking.
| Author | : Randol Contreras |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520273370 |
Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented insiderÕs look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as ÒStickup Kids,Ó these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robberyÕs violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing.
