Tale of Two Cities (eBook)

Santo Domingo and New York after 1950

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (Autor)

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2018
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18839-3 (ISBN)

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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 Tale of Two Cities tells the fascinating story of this emblematic migration from Latin America to the United States. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof chronicles not only how New York itself was forever transformed by Dominican settlement but also how Dominicans' lives in New York profoundly affected life in the Dominican Republic. A Tale of Two Cities is unique in offering a simultaneous, richly detailed social and cultural history of two cities bound intimately by migration. It explores how the history of burgeoning shantytowns in Santo Domingo--the capital of a rural country that had endured a century of intense U.S. intervention and was in the throes of a fitful modernization--evolved in an uneven dialogue with the culture and politics of New York's Dominican ethnic enclaves, and vice versa. In doing so it offers a new window on the lopsided history of U.S.-Latin American relations. What emerges is a unique fusion of Caribbean, Latin American, and U.S. history that very much reflects the complex global world we live in today.

Autor

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is assistant professor of history, American culture, and Latina/o studies at the University of Michigan.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Advertising • African Americans • A Man of the People • American imperialism • Balaguer • Barrio • Capitalism • City of • Civilization • club movement • Colonialism • Columbus Day • Community Organizing • community politics • Constitution of the Dominican Republic • Counterculture • Cultural Policy • de la Cruz • Dominican Republic • Ed Koch • Employment • encomienda • Ensanche • Ethnic history • Exclusion • Foray • Fulgencio Batista • Gang • george lipsitz • H&amp • H&R Block • Harlem riot of 1935 • Hippie • Hispanism • hispanos • Hostos Community College • housing development • Human capital flight • Human Migration • Illegal Immigration • Immigration • Immigration Law • Immigration to the United States • imperialism • internal migration • J. Anthony Lukas • Juan Pablo Duarte • Latin America • Liberation Struggle • middle class • New Economic Policy • newspaper • New York City • nightclub • peasant • Peso • political alliance • political class • political machine • Politician • Politics • popular culture • Prejudice • Public Capital • Public Expenditure • Public housing • Public sphere • Puerto Ricans • Racism • Rafael Trujillo • R Block • reform school • remittance • Slum • Social Club • Social History • Social Movement • social revolution • Social Transformation • State Formation • Stokely Carmichael • suburb • Symbolic Power • Tenement • Their Lives • The New York Times • Tourism • transnationalism • travel agency • travel visa • United States • Upper Manhattan • Urban bias • Urban Culture • Urbanism • urbanization • urban politics • urban sprawl • V. • Vincho Castillo • walkout
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18839-4 / 0691188394
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18839-3 / 9780691188393