RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Metamorphosing identities : Dominicans in New Jersey
A1 Decena, Carlos Ulises
K1 Dominican identity
K1 College students
K1 New Jersey
K1 Diaspora
K1 Transnational
K1 Identity
K1 Dominicanidad
K1 Language
K1 Identidad dominicana
K1 Estudiantes universitarios
K1 Nueva Jersey
K1 Transnacional
K1 Identidad
K1 Lenguaje
AB This essay engages Dominicans in New Jersey to explore and highlight areas that remain obscure and neglected in the study of the transnational experience of this population in general. In particular, the essay pays attention to the experience of young Dominican immigrants and Dominican Americans, whose live relation to Dominicanidentity is markedly different from that of their immigrant parents and older generations of immigrants. After providing an initial overview of Dominicans in New Jersey through a discussion of statistical data and press coverage, the essay uses interview materials with young men and women of this population to highlight where they locate and feeldominicanidad: in language use and its affective dimensions as well as in other expressive and cultural practices (eating, dancing) that take place within family and other kin networks. These locations for feeling and identification with Dominican identitychallenge us to appreciate better just how different being Dominican looks when seen by some of the young people with whom I spoke.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Servicio de Publicaciones
YR 2011
FD 2011
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11086
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11086
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 02-may-2024