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Fledgist
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 Posted: Mon 19 Jun 2006 20:02 Post subject: Welcome and first post |
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Frank has made me moderator of this forum. I'm most grateful.
I'd like to begin with an observation. The Caribbean was the site of the first encounter of Africans, Europeans and Native Americans. It is a place that, for the past five centuries has been dominated by, to use a buzzword, hybridity. Identities, imposed or accepted, have long had a degree of fluidity that they do not in North America.
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MisterLawyer
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| Quote: | | plus the numerous migration of N. American Southern Blacks |
To the Dominican Republic? Wow. I know nothing about this and I would love to be informed, if you've got the time. |
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Fledgist
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| Posted: Wed 21 Jun 2006 20:51 Post subject: Re: Welcome and first post |
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| Olorun1 wrote: | | Fledgist wrote: | Frank has made me moderator of this forum. I'm most grateful.
I'd like to begin with an observation. The Caribbean was the site of the first encounter of Africans, Europeans and Native Americans. It is a place that, for the past five centuries has been dominated by, to use a buzzword, hybridity. Identities, imposed or accepted, have long had a degree of fluidity that they do not in North America. |
Greetings Fledgist, and congratulations for undertaking the task ahead. This is also my first post on the ODR Forum.
As a Caribbean born [DR], I would like to know if is possible to study individual cases / countries, as supposed to a 'broadbrush' approach to the complexities of individual nations. For instance, the Dominican Republic has a complex history of [burrowing from your terms  ] "hybridity, imposed or accepted" identities -- which on the surface is all 'blanketted' under Dominican nationalism.
The formation of a two-nation Island [Haiti / Dominican Rep.], plus the numerous migration of N. American Southern Blacks, and West Indians in the late 1800's, and early 20th century added, and perhaps imposed customs / cultural changes to Dominican society. The U.S invasion of 1916 brought about other changes, including the planting of a dictator by the name of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo de Molina / Chevallier who despised Blackness, and imposed a policy of whitening resulting in mass accepted migration of white Puerto Ricans, European Jewish and Germans, as well as the massacre of Haitian migrant workers, and black Dominicans in 1937. Trujillo ruthless reign created a collective mindset in Dominican society 'mulataje / mestizo / whiteness', which still to this day assails blackness in the Dominican Republic.
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You shouldn't forget the Middle Easterners (turcos), and the Japanese whom Trujillo invited to settle in the DR. |
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Fledgist
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| MisterLawyer wrote: | | Quote: | | plus the numerous migration of N. American Southern Blacks |
To the Dominican Republic? Wow. I know nothing about this and I would love to be informed, if you've got the time. |
I would too. I know of the settlement of black West Indians in the nineteenth century, but not of black Americans. |
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G-Man
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| Olorun1 wrote: | Fledgist wrote:
| Quote: | | You shouldn't forget the Middle Easterners (turcos), and the Japanese whom Trujillo invited to settle in the DR. |
Of course, and also don't forget Chinese. I remember my uncle doing ironwork for Japanese who were in the peanut business, and Turcos / Middle Easterners who were in the restaurant / bar business. I first tasted kebbee / Kipe [treats filled with meat made from Bulgar wheat] from the Turcos' restaurants .
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Question: How many Japanese-Dominicans are there in the DR? Are they an endogomous group? |
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Fledgist
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| Posted: Thu 22 Jun 2006 21:50 Post subject: |
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| Olorun1 wrote: | Fledgist wrote:
| Quote: | | You shouldn't forget the Middle Easterners (turcos), and the Japanese whom Trujillo invited to settle in the DR. |
Of course, and also don't forget Chinese. I remember my uncle doing ironwork for Japanese who were in the peanut business, and Turcos / Middle Easterners who were in the restaurant / bar business. I first tasted kebbee / Kipe [treats filled with meat made from Bulgar wheat] from the Turcos' restaurants .
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True, one shouldn't forget the Chinese either. |
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