Dominican Republic

young couple who falls in love. They are, the Dominican Pedro Brito and his beautiful Haitian wife Adèle who both live in Elias Piña. This is a city located close to the massacre river boarding between the Dominican Republic and The Republic of Haiti.This novel makes reference to the massacre or genocide happened in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The president Rafael Leonidas Trujillo ordered the decapitation of millions of Haitians and Dominican Haitian decedents who could not pronounce the…

enforced here. The men and women in the Iranian culture are both enforced upon. The opposite is happening in the Dominican Republic. The men there are worshipped for getting as many women as they can. The narrator says when talking of Oscar, “Anywhere else his triple-zero batting average with the ladies might have passed without comment, but this is a Dominican kid we’re talking about, in a Dominican family: dude was supposed to have Atomic Level G, was supposed to be pulling in the bitches with…

Merengue is a Latin music and dance that originated in the Dominican Republic and that has strong African roots. It has become one of the most popular genres throughout Latin America and major cities in the United States. The name “Merengue” is derived from the French dessert “meringue,” which means whipped egg whites and sugar in Spanish. The name appears to have been given to the music in a fashion similar to the use of salsa as the name of the music. Merengue has its origins from the…

eliminated. This caused most of the people who lived in the Dominican Republic to move to the United States for shelter, gaining the satisfying feeling of safety and liberty at bay from his horrible rule, though many were wanted for their crimes. Also in this duration of time El Jefe commanded that his troops go search for Haitian men, women, and children, causing a massacre by killing them, in his country to “whiten” the Dominican Republic. It is estimated that 25,000 Haitian people were…

phenotypes and authenticity in Dominican culture. More specifically in its relationship to blackness. In Irene Lopez, a Puerto Rican clinical psychologist’s essay, Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations, she posits that, “Puerto Ricans who consider being “Indian” more beautiful, or more authentic, than being Black and, thus, often prefer to claim this over a Black identity.” (164) Though the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are two…

dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic for more than 30 years, before becoming immigrants (Contreras 5).“Diaz establishes an interesting technique that brings together different genres of North American pop culture: the comic book, science fiction film, and 1960’s television programs. It’s a clever way to sensitize the Hispanic-American readers in the United States about the complicated series of tragedies that the Dominican Republic has had to face over the…

genres. When someone says “Caribbean Music,” it is impossible to tell if they are talking about Merengue from the Dominican Republic, Ska from Jamaica, Salsa from Cuba, Reggaeton from Puerto Rico, or the many other types of music genres originating from the variety of countries that there are in the Caribbean. A specific type of Caribbean music that originates from the Dominican Republic is a genre called Bachata. This is a relatively new genre of music that has gained widespread fame and…

the struggles that character Yolanda feels from migrating for the Dominican Republic to the United States with her family at a young age and the effects that translate all the way to adulthood. The book spans over all of Yolanda’s experiences as a foreigner. She gets a taste for both the Dominican Republic and the United States. The exposing of two cultures shapes how Yolanda defines herself. The fact that…

countries and Latin America to administer legitimate claims of the European powers, rather than having the Europeans implement their own claims . The US used the Roosevelt Corollary to intervene in the Dominican Republic to protect the United States’ interests and to repay the debts the Dominicans owed to European nations. William Howard Taft, the successor of Roosevelt, replaced Roosevelt’s policy with a more indirect and constructive Dollar Diplomacy in Latin America. Taft believed that the…

paths of adolescence became blurred and incredibly confusing to Alvarez after she was, along with her family, forced to leave her native Dominican Republic for the strange United States. This culture shock was difficult to digest at the beginning, but then Alvarez became fueled by the bullies who taunted her accent and the missing pieces that being a “Dominican hyphen American” left in her life (Haley). Born into a family that dared to defy a dangerous dictator, Julia Alvarez’s abnormal…