Other Publications

Hernández, Ramona, Yana Kucheva, Sarah Marrara and Utku Sezgin
Restoring Housing Security and Stability in New York City Neighborhoods: Recommendations to Stop the Displacement of Dominicans and Other Working-Class Groups in Washington Heights and Inwood. 
July 2018. 17pp.
This study sheds light on how demographic changes in Washington Heights and Inwood have created steeper prices within the neighborhood’s housing market, driving away Dominicans and other low-income groups that have historically called the area their home. It also offers recommendations on how this issue can be remedied for the betterment of the local population.

Hernández, Ramona, Sarah Marrara and Utku Sezgin
When a Neighborhood Becomes a Revolving Door for Dominicans: Rising Housing Costs in Washington Heights/Inwood and the Declining Presence of Dominicans.
January 2018. 29pp.
This brief report is an introduction to the state of affordable housing in the Washington Heights/Inwood sector of New York City, historically a predominantly Dominican neighborhood.

Hernández, Ramona, Sarah Marrara and Utku Sezgin 
Research Brief No.1: Notes on People of Dominican Ancestry in Canada.
December 2016. 10pp.
This research brief offers a profile of the Latino population in Canada, with a particular focus on Dominicans, in an attempt to develop wider interest and more scholarly research on the subject.

Torres-Saillant, Silvio
Diasporic Disquisitions: Dominicanists, Transnationalism, and the Community.
2000. 41pp. 
This paper analyzes the Dominican diaspora discussing the two main lineage of analyses: those that privilege stress community formation and those based on transnational interaction.

Cocco de Filippis, Daisy, ed.
La literatura dominicana al final del siglo: Diálogo entre la tierra natal y la diáspora.
1999. 94pp.
These are the proceedings from a major Dominican literature conference reflecting on the state of Dominican letters in the native land and in the diaspora, and on the prospects of Dominican writers for the new millennium.

Dávila-Mendoza, Dora
Un concierto de voces: Mujer, familia y sociedad en Santo Domingo colonial.
1999. 62pp. 
This is a study of the social actions of women in 18th Century Santo Domingo.

Villamán-Matos, Maitreyi. 
Keepers of the Mystery. 
1999. 36pp. 
This is a preliminary study of Fiestas de Cruz (Feast of the Holy Cross) in the Dominican Republic.