Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic

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Part One- Geography, History Economy
Remembering Dominican Childhoods: Three Bodega Poems
Lesson Plan: La Bodega
The Dominican Republic in Maps
“Hay un país en el mundo”
Lesson Plan: The Country in a Poem
Introduction to Dominican History
A Timeline of Dominican History
Lesson Plan: Dominican Timeline
Minerva (From In the Time of the Butterflies)
“Butterflies soaring up to the sky” An Interview with Doña Dedé Mirabal
Lesson Plan: Las Mariposas
Introduction to the Dominican Economy
Was Your School’s Cap Made in This Sweatshop?
Lesson Plan: Factories and Sweatshops: Making the Links
Roots of Dominican Migration
Taking Leave: Poems of Emigration

Part Two- Migration and the Dominican Diaspora
La Ciguapa
Lesson Plan: La Ciguapa
At the Consulate (From Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family
Comes of Age in a New America)
La Cadena
Lesson Plan: Nos Vamos
Demographic Explosion: Dominican Immigration
to the United States
Dominicans in Puerto Rico: A Look at Barrio Gandul
Lesson Plan: A Block Study in Your Community
Dominicans in New York: Quisqueya on the Hudson
Lesson Plan: A Visual Compare and Contrast:
Daily Life in Barrio Gandul and Washington Heights
“The factories moved out…”
 Interview with Victor Morisete-Romero
Dominicans and Local Politics
“My life changed for the better…”
 Interview with Miguelina Sosa
“My dream is to start my own business…”
 Interview with Julie Guerrero
Lesson Plan: Dominicans in New York City
“You’ve got to be connected…”
 Interview with Francisco García-Quezada
Dominicans in New Jersey: Thriving Communities
Aguantando (From Drown)
Dominicans in Massachusetts: The Boston-Miraflores Connection
Lesson Plan: Transnational Ties:
Dominicans in Boston and Miraflores
Lesson Plan: Raising Children in the Dominican Republic
and the United States
Religious Life across Borders
“The face of the city is changing…”
 Inteview with César Sánchez Beras
Dominicans in Connecticut: Three Pioneras
Lesson Plan: Comparing Immigration Stories: Dominicans in
Connecticut and Your Town
Dominicans in Rhode Island: Doña Fefa’s Story
Lesson Plan: Community Activism in Rhode Island
“‘Black Behind the Ears’—and Up Front Too? Dominicans
in the Black Mosaic” Dominicans in Washington, DC
Lesson Plan: Oral Histories of Immigration
Dominicans in South Florida: Suburban Sunshine
Lesson Plan: Dominicans in South Florida
Lesson Plan: Immigration by the Numbers

Part Three- Shaping a Dominican Identity: Language, Race and Gender
You Call Me by Old Names
Image and Identity
Where Has My Spanish Gone?
The Obstacle of Race
Lesson Plan: “The professionals feel it in their flesh”
I Am an Extension of My Dominican Mamás
Lesson Plan: Extensions of Identity
The Gender Politics of Settlement versus Return
Education of Dominicans There and Here
“I’m part of three realms…”

Part Four—Haitian-Dominican Relations
Haiti
Haitian-Dominican Relations
The Massacre River
Perejil (From The Farming of Bones)
Lesson Plan: Crossing the Massacre River
Lesson Plan: Trujillo on Trial
Little Haiti

Part Five—The National Goes Global: Dominican Music and Baseball
Merengue: Symbol of National Identity
Lesson Plan: Visa para un Sueño
Lesson Plan: Merengue: Symbol of National Identity
“It’s not just about dancing…”
 Interview with Pedro Tavarez
Lesson Plan: Interview with Pedro Tavarez
Bachata: A Music of the People
Lesson Plan: Bachata: A Music of the People
San Pedro de Macorís: Baseball Mecca
Lesson Plan: Dominican Baseball
Epilogue: A Journey of Connections
 Jocelyn Santana
 

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