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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Torres-Saillant, Silvio. Dominican Americans. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998 (OCoLC)656313472 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Silvio Torres-Saillant; Ramona Hernández |
| ISBN: | 0313298394 9780313298394 |
| OCLC Number: | 37546807 |
| Description: | xxi, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | New Americans (Westport, Conn.) |
| Responsibility: | Silvio Torres-Saillant and Ramona Hernández. |
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