A Tale of Two Cities : : Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 / / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof.
In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. They toiled in garment factories and small groceries, and as taxi drivers, janitors, hospital workers, and nannies. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New York. A...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Maps
- One. From the Burro to the Subway
- Two. Progreso Cannot Be Stopped
- Three. Beautiful Barrios for the Humble Folk
- Four. Yankee, Go Home . . . and Take Me with You!
- Five. Hispanic, Whatever That's Supposed to Mean
- Six. To Have an Identity Here
- Seven. Not How They Paint It
- Eight. Strange Costumbres
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Population Change in the Dominican Republic
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index