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Meanderings on the Making of a Diasporic Hybrid Identity (Paperback)
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Meanderings on the Making of a Diasporic Hybrid Identity (Paperback)
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In 1965, the United States invaded the Dominican Republic for the
third time. The invasion spurred waves of emigration and brought a
million and a half Dominicans and their uniquely complex ideas
about ethnic cultural identity to the United States. Often, those
ideas clashed with American cultural notions and caused a great
deal of unrecognized emotional trauma for Dominican immigrants.
This clash was particularly problematic for those who arrived in
the early 1960s before "identity" was a fashionable topic of
discussion. Although scholarship is now saturated with the issue of
ethnic cultural identity, there is a shortage of material about
Dominican Americans' specific experiences. This book examines one
Dominican American's developing self-knowledge about what it means
to have left the Dominican Republic as a child during a time of war
and to have arrived and grown up in an often hostile American
society. It describes and analyzes the cycle of loss, yearning,
recognition, and understanding, as framed by key cultural events
and experiences that mark the process of negotiating and
constructing a "Dominican American" identity in the diaspora.
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