Dominican Order

their African lineage, seeing as a source of national pride. And while being one of the most impoverished countries in Latin America, it’s culture is based founded on a solid identiy. The dramatic differences between the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic validate that race is a social construct of race. Ideologies that are a “complex consciousness of color” blurring the line between blackness and whiteness also pointing out that “color correlates with class and culture shapes their…

Bachata is a style of dance that originated in the Dominican Republic. It’s a danced extensively all over the world, but not identically. The movement towards your body following a sequence of steps can also be interpreted as art. I believe in the idea that while you are dancing Bachata you can put all you passion and desire into the dance, allowing you the feeling of being loved and protect by your partner. But before getting to know your partner you have to get to know the dance first. So…

Haitian in the Dominican Republic Introduction There always have been a battle between the Dominican Republic and Haiti; even though they are neighbors they treat each other as enemies. On February 27, 1844 independence was declared from Haitians, after that they protect the country from dictatorial rules. Even after the independence Haitians is still part of the history till now days. Dominican Republic has been a point of foreign immigration mostly for Haitians. In this paper I will write…

all started with one sister, and her name is Minerva Mirabal. Minerva was the kind of girl who wanted to do good for others, in the novel and the history books. She encouraged people to join the underground to end the regime that transpired in the Dominican Republic. In the novel, she finds out that Trujillo is an atrocious man from her friend Sinita. This event actually occurred her to bring out her inner rebellion and got to the action. When Minerva attends the Discovery Dance, she slaps…

Black Dominicans will continue to deploy the musical practices of bachata as a mode of self-expression—both on the island and abroad—in order to claim a space in the Dominican national imaginary. The power of bachata, then, lays in its ability to provide Black Dominicans with a chance to right the wrongs of the island’s colonial legacy and claim their rightful spot in its history. The production…

As I looked out at the gorgeous light blue Caribbean Sea I saw a large white boat in the distance with a rope connected to a parachute sailing over it with multiple people in the boat. My family and I were standing on the pure white Dominican Republic sand waiting for our turn to take the dinghy out and meet the parasail boat for our first experience parasailing ever. The sky was as clear and blue as could be, with absolutely no clouds and the sun beaming on each and every one of the vacationers…

Julia Alvarez uses her poetic voice to explain, yet also escape, her multicultural world with a vocalized desire for freedom from oppression both in her home country and her home itself. Born in New York on March 27, 1950, Alvarez moved to the Dominican Republic as an infant, and moved back to the U.S. in 1960 at the age of ten. Her family sought asylum in the U.S. due to the discovery of her father’s rebellious plot…

Julia Alvarez grew up to age ten in the Dominican Republic. In this time period sugar cane was a booming industry, Catholicism was the top religion, and poverty was running rampant. Julia lived in a time when the government in the Dominican Republic was very corrupt. Anyone that disparaged the president was assassinated. Julia is associated with postmodernism (1996-present) and is still writing even today. This era loves independence, discovering of self, acceptance, and individuality. Julia was…

“In the Time of the Butterflies” is a historical novel by Julia Alvarez, relating an account of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Maria Teresa is the youngest of the four Mirabal sisters. She is very superficial and materialistic in the beginning of the story, but she becomes a resilient, strong-willed revolutionary hero. Further, Maria Teresa is willing to sacrifice herself for the sake of her family’s right for a liberal nation. Maria…

sisters—’” (Alvarez 166) The embodiment of Patria Mirabel's character is this quote, a woman who dedicated her life to terminating and rebirthing the government system of her home country, the Dominican Republic. Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies revolves around the dictatorship of the Dominican Republic—the dictator being Rafael Trujillo, also known as El Jefe—and the four Mirabel sisters, named Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and Dede. These sisters are what started…