CUNY DSI Produces Special Edition of Prestigious Journal Issue of ‘Camino Real’ Devoted to Dominicans in the U.S.

Dr. Ramona Hernández and Anthony Stevens Acevedo will edit a special edition of the journal “Camino Real” devoted to Dominicans in the United States.

 

NEW YORK (Wed. May 26, 2010)- At the invitation of the Instituto Franklin of the University of Alcalá, Spain, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) will produce a special issue of its prestigious journal, “Camino Real,” devoted to multidisciplinary monographs on Dominicans in the United States. CUNY DSI Director Dr. Ramona Hernández and Associate Director Anthony Stevens-Acevedo will edit the edition and conduct a national call for papers.

 

This is the first such agreement between the CUNY DSI, which is housed at The City College of New York, and Instituto Franklin, Spain’s renowned center for research on Latin American and Caribbean immigrant communities in the United States. “This is an important recognition for the emerging field of Dominican Studies and Dominicanists, as well as for the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute,” said Dr. Hernández.  “It furthers CUNY DSI’s stature as the leading institution in the United States devoted to study of people of Dominican ancestry.”

 

The Dominican population in the United States, defined as people who trace their ancestry to the Dominican Republic, is one of the largest Latino immigrant groups in the country at more than 1.5 million.  In recent years it has grown more complex in terms of the source of its population growth, its geographical distribution and its generational makeup.

 

Socioeconomic indicators of Dominicans in the United States have changed dramatically since the 1990s, especially in educational attainment.  A rapidly growing second generation that has become a major social force in U.S. Dominican society has driven this feat.  In addition, the U.S. Dominican population is increasing its influence in the arts, literature, popular culture, politics and business.

 

The special issue will examine, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the increased complexity of the Dominican experience in the United States.  “We want to move beyond the vast amount of literature on Dominicans as immigrants with one foot in the United States and the other in the Dominican Republic,” said Dr. Hernández.  “We aim to offer new perspectives on the vibrant culture and society Dominicans have built in the United States.”

 

The editors will examine and are soliciting papers that investigate such issues as:

 

What do changes in population growth imply for the situation of the Dominican population in the United States?

Do Dominicans in New York differ from Dominicans settling in other parts of the country, such as Florida or New Jersey?

What are the major themes of the literature, art, and music of the Dominican people in the United States?

 

The deadline for submission of invited and contributed papers is January 2011.  Publication is planned for spring 2011.  Articles will be accepted in Spanish and English, and should not exceed 8,000 words. Detailed publications guidelines are available on the “Camino Real”

website .  Please contact Anthony Stevens-Acevedo at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, 212-650-5453, astevens@ccny.cuny.edu, for assistance with the submission process or questions.

 

About “Camino Real”

“Camino Real” is an official publication of the Instituto Franklin, established in 1987 as  Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, a university research institute of the University of Alcalá, Spain. “Camino Real” is a peer-reviewed and multidisciplinary publication and is published twice a year, spring and fall.  It is divided into four sections – Critical Articles, Interviews, Reviews and Creative Writing – and includes articles that reflect the different sensibilities and peculiarities of the Hispanic world in the United States, includingartistic, political, economic, sociological, cultural, literary and historical perspectives. Website: http://www.institutofranklin.net/en/research/publications/revista-camino-rea

 

About Instituto Franklin

The Instituto Franklin is a research institute of the University of Alcalá, Spain. Its main mission is to serve as a cooperative and unifying communication platform between Spain and North America, with the goal of promoting mutual understanding.  The Instituto Franklin fulfills its mission: fostering and nurturing the creation of groups of researchers in collaboration with different North American universities; offering official post-graduate training (master’s degrees and doctorates in North American Studies); disseminating the knowledge about North America through diverse publishing venues, and organizing academic meetings, of national as well as international character, on themes inherent to the mission of the Institute itself.

 

About the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute

Founded in 1992 and housed at The City College of New York, the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY DSI) is the nation’s first university-based research institute devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent in the United States and other parts of the world.  CUNY DSI’s mission is to produce and disseminate research and scholarship about Dominicans and about the Dominican Republic.  The Institute houses the Dominican Archives and the Dominican Library, the first and only institutions in the United

States collecting primary and secondary source material about people of Dominican descent.  CUNY DSI is the locus for a community of scholars, including doctoral fellows, in the field of Dominican Studies.  It sponsors multidisciplinary research projects and organizes lectures, conferences, and exhibitions that are open to the public.

 

CUNY DSI Contact:

Altagracia Diloné Levat, P:  347-739-7664    E:  alevat@ccny.cuny.edu

 

Media Contact

Ellis Simon     P:  212-650-6460         E:  esimon@ccny.cuny.edu

 

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To Watch DANR President First State of Dominicans in the US Address, Click below

 

President Nestor Montilla delivers the first “State of Dominicans in the US Address” from Walt Disney World live on Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at noon on the DANR website: www.danr.org. Following is a link to the speech.

 

Mr. Luis Guzman, DANR Board Director, and former DANR Vice President, introduced President Montilla:

“Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the Dominican American National Roundtable comes to the position with an impressive background in organization, sociological research and public relations. The combination of those skills makes him a visionary focused and hands-on leader who is setting the agenda for DANR and Dominicans in the United States for the next ten years. Please help me welcome, President Nestor Montilla.”

THE STATE OF DOMINICANS IN THE US: RENEWED VISION – RENEWED COMMITMENT 

By Nestor Montilla

Distinguished dignitaries, elected officials, conference speakers and panelists, students, special guests, conference participants…Dominicans.

MORE: CLICK BELOW…

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM10JmphX7A&feature=player_embedded

Part II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgUjRkU0v64&feature=player_embedded

Part III

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjubRh3jLM&feature=player_embedded

Dominican American National Roundtable holds Annual Retreat at Rutgers School of Law in Newark, NJ

 

Washington, DC. — The Board of Directors of the Dominican American National Roundtable held its annual retreat from Friday, May 21 to Sunday, May 23, 2010 at Rutgers School of Law in Newark, NJ.

Board directors attending retreat came from across the United States, including Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, Providence, RI, Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey.

“We are honored and delighted to host our annual retreat in New Jersey this year,” said Nestor Montilla, DANR President and Chairman of the Board. “Our national annual retreat is our venue where we as board members participate in board leadership development and share our experiences carrying progressive work on behalf of our communities; we brainstorm, renew our vision and commitment and strategize to strengthen our Corporation. I would like to sincerely say that, as board members, we have all been blessed individually and collectively with having achieved so much so far on behalf of our community. After successfully hosting our 12th National Annual Conference in Walt Disney World, our Board has now embarked on restructuring DANR.”

“The meeting agenda includes strategic planning sessions, and a set of actions including policy and critical bylaws changes to serve our membership better and strengthen DANR in the years to come,” said the Hon. Julio Guridy, DANR National Vice President.

Other invited participants included DANR past presidents and founders Victor Capellan and New York State Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat.

About DANR

The Dominican American National Roundtable is a non-partisan non-profit Washington, D.C. based organization that advocates for the empowerment of over 2 million Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico. The DANR is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization established in 1997 and incorporated in 2000. We are the first and only national organization advocating on behalf of the growing Dominican American community in areas concerning education, health, immigration, economic development, and civic empowerment at the national level.

DANR Joins Forces with National and Local Coalitions to March for Immigration Reform in Washington, DC

President Obama and the US Congress Should Keep Their Promise

It’s Time for Immigration Reform; They Should Act Now!

 

Washington, DC. — The Dominican American National Roundtable, the only non profit, non partisan 501 (c) (3) national organization headquartered in Washington, DC, advocating on behalf of over 2 million Dominicans in the US, joined forces with hundreds of grassroots and national organizations and thousands of people at the “March for America” that took place in the National Mall in Washington, DC on Sunday, March 21, 2010 to demand from President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress the enactment of comprehensive immigration reform.

 

The March begun at 2:00 pm, after interfaith services at 1:00 pm.

Critics claim that President Obama broke George W. Bush’s deportation record. During his first year as president, they argue, Obama would deport more than 387,000 immigrants and that on any

given day approximately 32,000 immigrants would be detained in U.S. prisons and awaiting deportation.

 

The March demanded immigration reform for New American families, including a legalization plan for over 11 million undocumented immigrants, and economic justice for all American families.

 

Members of the DANR and its National Board of Directors who participated traveled from their home states to join in DC thousands of people from across the United States.

 

President Nestor Montilla marched accompanied by a delegation of DANR Board members.

 

National organizers of the Immigration Reform for America Campaign secured hundreds of buses to transport people to the March.

 

In New York, La Coalición Comunidades Inmigrantes organized participation in the march with the support of Acción Comunitaria La Aurora-NALACC, Alianza Dominicana, Asociación de Egresados de la UASD, Centro de Desarrollo de la Mujer Dominicana, Congreso Nacional Dominicano, Iglesia Presbiteriana de Washington Heighst, Iglesia San Romero de las Américas, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Inmigrants Rights, Proyecto de Participación Cívica de NY (NYCPP) and The Dominican American National Roundtable-DANR (La Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana).

 

For updates and more information about the march visit www.WeMarchFor America.org.

 

Here are just some of the organizations sponsoring the National March For America:

AFL-CIO


African Immigrant & Refugee Foundation



Alliance to Develop Power/ADP


America’s Voice
American Jewish Committee


Amigos Multicultural Services Center (Eugene, OR)


Asian American Justice Center


Asian Pacific American Legal Center


Asistencia Migratoria
Bergen County (NJ)

Sanctuary Committee
Bienestar
Border

Network for Human Rights


Brazilian Women’s Group
Breakthrough:

Bring Human Rights

Home
Cabrini Immigrant Services
Campaign for Community Change


Casa de Maryland


Catholic Charities

Hawaii
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
CAUSA,

Oregon’s Immigrant Rights Coalition
Center for American Progress


Centro para Familias Hispanas


Christ’s Foundry United Methodist Mission
Coalition for Education About Immigration (CEI)


Coalition for Humane Immigration Reform of LA


Coalition of Latino Leaders-CLILA


Coalition on Human Needs
Cobb (County,GA)

Immigrant Alliance & Labor of Love Coalition
COFEM


Community Catalyst
Community Nashville (formally National Council For Christians and Jews/Nashville Chapter)


Comunidad Liberacion/Liberation

Community
Conexion

Americas
Confederacion de Organizaciones de California y Clubes Oriundos de Michoacan


Democracia Ahora


Divine Word Missionaries


Dominican-American National Roundtable (DANR)


Ecumenical Advocacy Days


El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos

Fair Immigration Reform Movement


Farmworker Justice
First Focus

Campaign for Children


Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO)


Georgia Urban Rural Summit


Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition


Hispanic Community Dialogue Organization of Virginia


Hispanic Information Center


Hispanic Ministry of the New Albany Deanery


Hispanos Unidos de Passaic


Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters,

JPIC, USA


Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights


Immigrants’ List


Immigrant Rights Network of Iowa


Interfaith Immigration Coalition


Japanese American Citizens League – Pacific

Southwest District
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs


Jobs for America Now


Jornaleros Unidos de Passaic


Kansas House of Representatives


Kentucky Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights


Korean Resource Center


La Comunidad, INC


La Union (UCL, INC.)


La Union del Pueblo Entero


Labor Council for Latin American Advancement


Latino Coalition of Randolph County


Latinos del Norte de Portland


League of United American Citizens (LULAC)


League of United Latin American Citizens


Liberación Juice Station,

LLC
LULAC

Ohio
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service


Mexican Americans for Immigration Reform


Migrant Support Services of Wayne County


National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund (NALEO Ed Fund)


National Center for Lesbian Rights


National Council of La Raza


National Immigration Forum


National Immigration Law Center


National Korean American Service and Education Consortium


New Haven Peoples Center


Omni Center For Peace, Justice & Ecology


Patria Morazan, Houston
Peruvian American Political Action Committee


Progressive Democrats of America – Phoenix Chapter


Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada


Reform Immigration for TexasAlliance (RITA)


Refugee and Immigration Ministries, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)


Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center


SEVA (Social Empowerment & Voter Action)


SEIU


Sí Se Puede Latino Democratic Caucus


Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary


Sojourners
South Asian Americans

Leading Together
Southeast Asia

Resource Action Center (SEARAC)


St. Matthew/San Mateo Episcopal Church and Jubilee Center


St. Rita Catholic Church


The Dominican American National Roundtable


The Hispanic Institute


The Hispanic Leadership

Club of Annandale High School


The Law Offices of Richard S. Bromberg


United Action Connecticut


TODEC Legal Center


UFCW


UNITE HERE


United Farm Workers


US Conference of Catholic Bishops


Venezeula Awareness Foundation


Washington Community Action Network


Washington New Sanctuary Movement


Wayne Action for Racial Equality


WIN – the Welcoming Immigrants Network
World Relief

 

 

NOTED & QUOTED

 

CRECE EL ENTUSIASMO Y LA PARTICIPACION DE INMIGRANTES A LA MARCHA DEL 21 DE MARZO EN WASHINGTON D.C.

Radhamés Pérez

Presidente de Acción Comunitaria La Aurora

 

Centenares de dominicanos del Alto Manhattan y del condado del Bronx se aprestan a participar en la marcha por una reforma migratoria justa y humana, programada para este domingo, 21 de marzo, en la Capital de los EE.UU.

 

La gran marcha a Washington ha sido concebida para reclamar tanto al Presidente Barack Obama como a los senadores y representantes al Congreso de la Nación, para que cumplan con su promesa electoral de modificar la obsoleta ley de migración vigente.

 

Concebimos la reforma migratoria desde una perspectiva justa y humana, lo que pasa en primer termino por la legalización de los más de 12 millones de personas indocumentadas que viven en la oscuridad ciudadana y en la exclusión social.

 

A 48 horas del evento pro-inmigrantes, 250 autobuses están garantizados que saldrán de New York. El minimo de neoyorquinos/as marcharan hacia Washington será de 10,000.

 

Desde el Alto Manhattan autobuses partirán desde distintos, principalmente desde las oficinas centrales de Alianza Dominicana, ubicada en el 2410 de Ámsterdam Ave, esquina calle 180. La hora de salida ser las 6 de la mañana.

 

Para la comunidad dominicana y latina en general además de reclamar la reforma a la ley de inmigración, resulta importante demandar la modificación del calendario de procesamiento de las solicitudes de residencias hecha a familiares directos y adultos que viven en nuestros países.

 

El predominio del actual calendario retarda por mucho tiempo la reunificación familiar. Lo injusto de esta situación se puede ver en el caso de la comunidad mexicana, en la cual hay casos de solicitud de residencias que se están procesando que datan de octubre del 1992, significando una espera de 18 años.

 

Así mismo hay que insistir en cambiar la ley antiterrorista aprobada en 1996, que penaliza con deportación crímenes menores y no violentos. Producto de dicha ley mas de 1 millón 200 mil personas han sido deportadas de EE.UU., alrededor de 45 mil de las cuales son dominicanos.

 

Con la marcha del proximo domingo, comenzaremos a celebrar el cuarto aniversario de las grandes manifestaciones pro-inmigrantes ocurridas en la primavera del 2006.

Como recordamos, para entonces millones de personas de distintas razas y nacionalidades salieron a las calles de la nacion y derrotaron la perversa propuesta de los congresistas James Sennsenbrener y Peter King que criminalizaba la inmigración indocumentada.

 

Acción Comunitaria La Aurora Inc, una de las organizaciones que integran la Coalición Comunidades Inmigrantes, reitera su llamado a nuestra comunidad a integrarse masiva y activamente a este nuevo movimiento pro defensa de nuestros trabajadores inmigrados.

 

Para más información llamar a los telefonos (212) 740-1960 y (212) 994-6060.

 

(La Coalición Comunidades Inmigrantes está integrada por Acción Comunitaria La Aurora-NALACC, Alianza Dominicana, Asociación de Egresados de la UASD, Centro de Desarrollo de la Mujer Dominicana, Congreso Nacional Dominicano, Iglesia Presbiteriana de Washington Heighst, Iglesia San Romero de las Américas, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Inmigrants Rights y Proyecto de Participación Cívica de NY (NYCPP). La Mesa Redonda Dominico Americana es tambien patrocinadora de la Coalicion.

 

 

DANR Participates in The March for America-March 21, 2010 in DC

Washington, DC.– The Dominican American National Roundtable joined thousands of people from across the United States for the March for America in the National Mall in Washington, DC on Sunday, March 21, 2010 to demand that President Barack Obama and the US Congress maintain their promise to enact comprehensive immigration reform.

Organizers demand “Immigration Reform for New American Families.”

The March for America was organized by hundreds of grassroots organizations from across the US. More information is available at www.WeMarchFor America.org

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