Dominica um do you guys all do folks know her from mamalicious blogs and so
Dominican Republic, and I also identifies Afro Latina from us far as, um, college days. But you know, that
Dominican Republic. And it's not limited to the Dominican Republic, right? So many nations do it. And then we arrive here, another nationalist nation. But
the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, in Brazil, many and
delicious traditional Dominican meals.
But in the Dominican Republic, we have so many ways in which we make it, like you said, and I wanted to include a variety of that
we talk about the Dominican migration, we focus in the US.
People who are not Dominican but are married to a Dominican person and have multicultural children, they want to have something like this
And in the Dominican Republic, it's really, like-- it's a huge dish.
I love Dominican food.
I'm not Dominican, and I order it a lot.
As a Dominican myself, I'm super orgullosa that this book is out there.
and have Dominicanized it a little bit and make it into our own.
regards to black Dominican women, working class women in Dominican Republic shape their everyday lives. So I did. And I have done extensive research on anti
black racism among Dominicans in Dominican Republic in particular, and now it's evolved to Dominicans in the diaspora, specifically the US. Our work as brew has a
an idea like the Dominican Republic, but then still continue to shun blackness. Because in the U. S. Context, people say black and they think African American and as
I included as a Dominican woman that identifies as black or is it relegated Onley toe African Americans?
in the Dominican Republic, specifically, but it's still there. So I'm reclaiming this word brouhaha, this word which we're reclaiming, an identity of black indigenous
We saw Leslie Grace dominicana wearing a T-shirt.
And in the Dominican Republic, along with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras, there are no exceptions.
of the Dominican. We're more willing to just say, where you came from doesn't matter.
I'm a Dominican kid from the Bronx.
that immigrants from the Dominican Republic have nothing to offer our economy.
It's from the Dominican Republic.
gone down to the Dominican Republic to do a volunteer veterary campaign. And there was an organization that we were
family vacation in the Dominican Republic where we also all think we're we're the kings and queens of the Caribbean so I can because we because we
You're talking about Dominican influence and Puerto Rican influence in New York, Chicanos in Texas, California You're dealing there with nationality,
We were the Dominican Chamber of Commerce when I was a kid.
There were three Dominican families, actually.
in the Dominican Republic and broke them into three groups.
She's a Dominican kid who got 800 combined-- I'm letting this sink in-- combined on the math
There's one called Dominican Beef.
So the Dominican Republic, something I know incredibly well and Central New Jersey, another place I know incredibly well, Junot Diaz: I mean, anybody, Jersey?
My first question about a Dominican cookbook was, how did you find what a 1/2, a cup is, a 1/4 of a cup
It's a huge part of Dominican culture.
very much a representation of here's Dominican cooking.
And you can make it with Dominican salami, which is like a type of sausage that is super easy to use.
It's two different types of Dominican sausage.
Most of the population from the Dominican Republic, where the official language is Spanish, is Black.
that were personally embracing as black Dominican women. Mhm, Dr Griselda? Yes. So thank you, everybody for
I teach the history of the Dominican Republic at the Borough of Manhattan Community College as well as the Latino experience in the United States.
I grew up in the Dominican Republic, and I became Hispanic when I moved to the States.
I'm a black and white Dominican.
There are only a million or so Dominicans in the United States, but there are millions and millions and millions of Latinos in the United States.
My mom immigrated from the Dominican Republic when she was six months pregnant with me.
So I felt for the poor Dominicans who were freezing out there.
You mentioned your family's from the Dominican Republic.
And so he left the Dominican Republic, and they met, got married, and settled ultimately in Buffalo, as I described.
It was down in the Dominican Republic.
So I moved into the States from Dominican Republic in '74.