A Tale of Two Cities : Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--Case studies.

Sociology, Urban.

Transnationalism--Case studies.

Transnationalism.

Dominicans (Dominican Republic)--Migrations--History--20th century.

Dominicans (Dominican Republic).

Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--20th century.

Immigrants.

Dominican Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--20th century.

Dominican Americans.

New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)--Social conditions--20th century.

Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).

New York (N.Y.)--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 319 p. :) ill., maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691188393

0691188394

OCLC:

1132226331