Dominican_American

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dominican American Dominican American Dominican American Haitian Americans Honduran Americans Mexican Americans Nicaraguan Americans Panamanian Americans Paraguayan Americans Peruvian Americans Puerto Ricans (stateside) Salvadoran Americans Spanish Americans Uruguayan Americans Venezuelan Americans History History of Hispanic and Latino Americans History of Mexican-Americans Religions Notable Dominican Americans: Alex Rodriguez • Zoe Saldana Karina Pasian • Tristan Wilds Christian Latinos · Santeria Latino Jews · Latino Muslims Political movements Hispanic and Latino American politics Chicano Movement Organizations National Hispanic Institute NALEO Congressional Hispanic Caucus LULAC · NALFO · SHPE National Council of La Raza Association of Hispanic Arts · MEChA · UFW Culture Hispanic culture Literature · Studies · Music Languages English · Spanish in the United States Spanish · Spanglish Lists Total population 1,217,225 0.4% of the US population (2006)[1] Regions with significant populations New York City, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, South Florida, Boston Languages English, Spanish Religion Predominantly Roman Catholic; Protestants; others Related ethnic groups fellow Hispanic and Latino Americans Part of a series of articles on Hispanic and Latino Americans Groups Argentine Americans Bolivian Americans Chilean Americans Colombian Americans Costa Rican Americans Cuban Americans Dominican Americans Ecuadorian Americans Guatemalan Americans Communities with Hispanic majority Puerto Rico-related topics Notable Hispanics Related topics Portals Latino and Hispanic Portal A Dominican American (also DominicanYork)[2] is any American who has origins in the Dominican Republic. (Not to be mistaken 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for Dominicans from the Commonwealth of Dominica). Immigration records of Dominicans in the United States date from the late 1800s, and New York City had a Dominican community since the 1930s. From the 1960s onward, after the fall of the Rafael Trujillo military regime, large waves of migration have thoroughly transnationalized the Dominican Republic, metaphorically blurring its frontier with the United States. In 2006, there were approximately 1.2 million people of Dominican descent in the US, both native and foreign-born.[1] Dominican American (30,876), and Connecticut (17,213) — the seven U.S. states with 10,000 or more Dominican Americans. The Census Bureau estimated the nationwide Dominican American population at 1,217,225 in 2006.[4] Since 1980, the Census Bureau has asked U.S. residents to classify their race separately from their Hispanic or Latino origin, if any. In 1990, 29.2% of Dominican Americans responded that they were white, while 30% considered themselves black. 39.8% of the total, composing a plurality, chose the "other" category.[5] The prevalence of the "other race" category probably reflects the large number of people of mixed African and European ancestry in the Dominican Republic, where 73% of the population are of mixed African and European descent, commonly known as mulato.[6] Many are triracial, however, having also Taíno (Native American) ancestry. History Since the early 1960s, economic problems and political turmoil in the Dominican Republic have led to a vast migration of Dominicans to the U.S., mainly to East coast cities, particularly New York City and other places in New York; North Jersey ; South Jersey ; South Florida (Miami and Fort Lauderdale); Providence, Rhode Island; and Lawrence and Boston, Massachusetts. Smaller waves of Dominicans have gone to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Houston, Texas; Washington, D.C.; Kansas City, Missouri; and New Orleans, Louisiana metropolitan areas. Dominican Americans have settled in these areas largely because of the already existing and growing Latino community found in these places, having come on the heels of a similar migration of Puerto Ricans. Distribution The top 25 US communities with the highest percentages of people claiming Dominican ancestry are:[7] 1. Haverstraw (village), New York 26.95% 2. Lawrence, Massachusetts 22.47% 3. Perth Amboy, New Jersey 18.81% 4. Passaic, New Jersey 13.06% 5. Sleepy Hollow, New York 12.67% 6. Union City, New Jersey 11.46% 7. Haverstraw (town), New York 11.13% 8. Paterson, New Jersey 10.27% 9. Bronx, New York 9.99% 10. Manhattan, New York 8.87% 11. Providence, Rhode Island 8.43% 12. West New York, New Jersey 8.41% 13. West Haverstraw, New York 8.17% 14. Freeport, New York 7.37% 15. Copiague, New York 6.57% 16. Lynn, Massachusetts 6.2% 17. New Brunswick, New Jersey 5.88% 18. Weehawken, New Jersey 5.74% 19. North Bergen, New Jersey 5.56% 20. Salem, Massachusetts 5.39% 21. Prospect Park, New Jersey 5.28% 22. Guttenberg, New Jersey 5.09% 23. Brentwood, New York 5.09% 24. New York, New York 5.08% 25. Miami Gardens, Broward County, Florida 4.62% Of places with 500 or more residents born in the Dominican Republic, the ten with the highest percentages are:[8] Demographics Almost half of all the Dominican Americans today have arrived since the 1990s. New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood, on the northwestern tip of Manhattan, is so densely populated by Dominican Americans that it is sometimes referred to as Quisqueya Heights, after Quisqueya, another name for the Dominican Republic. Dominican Americans are now the fifth-largest Hispanic group in the United States, after the Mexican American majority, Puerto Rican Americans, Cuban Americans, and Salvadoran Americans.[3] As of 2006, the largest concentrations of Dominican Americans are in New York (659,962), New Jersey (167,689), Florida (136,891), Massachusetts (83,700), Pennsylvania (36,091), Rhode Island 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Haverstraw, New York 22.6% Lawrence, Massachusetts 21.4% Perth Amboy, New Jersey 16.4% Sleepy Hollow, New York 14.9% Passaic, New Jersey 12.5% Union City, New Jersey 10.9% Paterson, New Jersey 9.6% Bronx, New York 9.3% Fort Devens, Massachusetts 8.7% Manhattan, New York 8.1% Dominican American take an active part in U.S. politics, partly because many dream of eventually returning to the island.[11] Dominican American culture Music is at the heart of Dominican American culture. Dominican music includes above all merengue and bachata. Bachata, as well as reggaeton, has become popular among many Dominican American youth, as have house, salsa, rock, hip hop, and other genres. Almost 90% of all Dominican Americans are Roman Catholic. Altagracia and Mercedes, which are as strong symbols of Dominican identity as the Dominican flag. Dominican food typically features white rice, legumes (beans, peas, etc), yucca, plantains, mangú, beef, mofongo, moro, and sancocho. Adjustment and development A significant number of Dominican Americans are young, first generation immigrants without a higher education, since many hailed from the Dominican rural countryside. Second generation Dominican Americans are overwhelmingly more educated than their first generation counterparts, as reflected by their higher incomes and employment in professional or skilled occupations. Over 21% of all second-generation Dominican Americans have college degrees, slightly below the national average (24%) but significantly higher than U.S.-born Mexican Americans (13%) and U.S.-born Puerto Rican Americans (12%).[9] Notable Dominican Americans Dominicans and Dominican Americans have made great strides in the field of baseball, the top sport in the Dominican Republic. Sammy Sosa, Moisés Alou, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Pedro Martínez, Vladimir Guerrero, David Ortiz, Miguel Tejada, Albert Pujols, Manny Ramírez, and Hall of Fame member Juan Marichal are just a few of the many famous current or former Dominican baseball players. Baseball isn’t the only sport with Dominican American figures. The National Basketball Association (NBA) has Charlie Villanueva, born and raised in Elmhurst, Queens, New York; and Francisco Garcia and Al Horford, Dominican immigrants both. Felipe López was a star at Rice High School and St. John’s University, both in New York, and played several seasons in the NBA. Luis Flores attended Manhattan College and later played one season in the NBA before going to Europe. In the National Football League (NFL) there is Luis Castillo of the San Diego Chargers and Tutan Reyes of the Carolina Panthers. Dominican Americans have also contributed major literary works on their experiences in the U.S. and the Dominican Republic. Junot Diaz is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which Participation in U.S. Politics The United States House of Representatives does not have a Dominican American member. However, over two dozen Dominican Americans are elected councilmembers, county legislators, and state legislators throughout the United States. They hold office in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico.[10] The electoral participation of Dominicans in the United States may improve as a result of the 1994 approval of dual citizenship by the Dominican legislature, which makes it easier for migrants to become U.S. citizens without relinquishing their Dominican nationality. A 1997 Dominican law, which took effect in 2004, allows Dominicans living abroad to retain their Dominican citizenship and voting rights, even if they become citizens of another country. Traditionally, Dominicans living in the United States are passionately involved in politics "back home", but unlike other Hispanic national groups, such as Cuban Americans and Mexican Americans, Dominican Americans are not as inclined to 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in April 2008 and made him the first Dominican American and the second Latino in U.S. history to win the Pulitzer Prize.[12] [13] Julia Alvarez is the nationally-recognized author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Oscar de la Renta is one of the most recognized names in the fashion industry. Dominican Americans have increasingly made a presence in the financial industry. Cid Wilson was ranked #1 Wall Street financial analyst in the Specialty Retailing category by Forbes in 2006.[14][15] Among Dominican American politicians are former New York City Councilman and current Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs for the City of New York Guillermo Linares; New York State Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat; New York State Assemblyman Jose Peralta; New York City Councilman Miguel Martinez; New York City Councilwoman Diana Reyna; Rhode Island State Senator Juan Pichardo; Rhode Island State Representative Grace Diaz; Passaic, New Jersey Mayor Dr. Alex D. Blanco; Trenton, New Jersey Councilman Manuel Segura; Allentown, Pennsylvania Councilman Julio Guridy; Massachusetts State Representative William Lantigua; first Dominican American New York County Supreme Court Judge Rolando T. Acosta; and many more. There is a history of Dominican Americans serving in state-level gubernatorial cabinet positions. Dr. Rosa Perez-Perdomo was Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, from 2005 to 2008.[16] Dr. Eduardo J. Sanchez was Commissioner of Health for the state of Texas from 2001 to 2006.[17] New York Secretary of State Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez is of both Puerto Rican and Dominican descent and has served in her post since March 2007.[18] President Barack Obama made his first major Dominican American appointment on March 13, 2009 when he nominated Thomas E. Perez to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.[19] Perez is currently the Secretary of Labor, Licencing, & Regulation for the State of Maryland. María Montez was an actress in 1940s Hollywood. Zoe Saldana is an actress born in New Jersey to a Dominican father and Puerto Rican mother. Michelle Rodriguez, born of a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father, is well known for her roles in the television Dominican American series Lost and the movies The Fast and the Furious, S.W.A.T., and Resident Evil. Merlin Santana was a well-known actor from New York City whose parents are Dominican. His most notable role was as Romeo on The Steve Harvey Show. He died in November 2002. Fashion, modelling, and beauty pageants • Magali Febles – owner of the Miss Dominican Republic and Miss Puerto Rico pageant franchises • Oscar de la Renta – fashion designer • Amelia Vega – Miss Universe, 2003 Literature • Julia Alvarez • Junot Diaz • Angie Cruz Motion picture and television • Nancy Alvarez – psychologist, television talk show host • Tina Aumont – French/Dominican actress • Lourdes Benedicto – actress • Julissa Bermudez – television personality (BET) • Monica Boyar – actress, singer • Francis Capra – actor • Susie Castillo – television host of TRL • Charytin – actress, singer, and television host • Juan Fernández – actor • Rick Gonzalez – actor • Wilson Jermaine Heredia – actor (Angel, from the film Rent) • Wolf Hudson – actor (pornographic films) • Rafael Jose – actor, television personality • Arthur Lithgow – actor • Luis Lopez – actor (film Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights) • Yorlin Madera – actor (television series One Life to Live) • Judy Marte – actress • Maria Montez – actress • Omahyra Mota – actress, model • Patricia Mota – actress (sister of Omahrya Mota) • Miguel A. Nuñez – actor • Ilka Tanya Payan – actress, AIDS/HIV activist • Manny Perez – actor (films Party Monster and El Cantante) 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Dania Ramirez – actress • Victor Rasuk – actor (film Raising Victor Vargas) • Alisa Reyes – actress • Judy Reyes – actress (television show Scrubs) • Birmania Rios – television personality (television show Despierta America) • Michelle Rodriguez – actress • Zoe Saldana – actress • Merlin Santana – actor • Rosanna Tavarez – actress, singer (group Eden’s Crush) • Tammy Trull – actress • Ludo Vika – actress, comedienne • Tristan Wilds - actor • Sandra Zaiter – television personality in Puerto Rico Dominican American • Adriano Espaillat – New York Assemblyman; first Dominican American to be elected to a state legislature in the United States • Guillermo Linares – first Dominican American elected in the United States, as former New York City Councilman • Miguel Martinez – New York City Councilman • Joseline Pena-Melnyk – member of the Maryland General Assembly • Pedro Saúl Pérez – activist for Dominican rights in Puerto Rico • Juan Pichardo[20] – Rhode Island State Senator; first Dominican American to be elected State Senator in the United States • Diana Reyna – New York City councilwoman; first Dominican American woman elected in New York City • Tilo Rivas – Union City, New Jersey Commissioner of Public Affairs and Hudson County Freeholder • Julio Tavarez[21] – Paterson, New Jersey City Councilman Music • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Manny Albam – jazz musician José Alberto (El Canario) – singer Alih Jey – rock singer Anaís – singer Aventura – bachata group Alex Bueno – singer Angel Clivillés – freestyle singer and lead member of The Cover Girls Coro – freestyle singer and actor Daniel Cruz Sánchez – singer, songwriter Kat DeLuna – singer Juan Luis Guerra – singer, songwriter, and music producer Johnny Pacheco – singer, godfather of New York salsa Proyecto Uno – merengue hip-hop group Karina Pasian – singer Fausto Rey – singer, songwriter, and music producer Roger Sanchez – DJ, house music producer Anthony Santos – bachata singer Rosanna Tavarez – singer from Eden’s Crush Sport Baseball • • • • • • • Felipe Alou – manager and player Jesús Alou – player Matty Alou – player Moisés Alou – player Danny Almonte – Little Leaguer Danny Bautista – player Francisco Cabrera – player, hero of the 1992 National League Championship Series (NLCS) for the Atlanta Braves Robinson Canó – player Bartolo Colón – player Julio Franco – player Vladimir Guerrero – player Juan Marichal – Hall of Fame player Pedro Martínez – Cy Young Award–winning player Omar Minaya – Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager for the New York Mets Raúl Mondesí – player David Ortiz – player Albert Pujols – player; 2001 Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winner Manny Ramírez – player José Reyes – player Alex Rodriguez – player Sammy Sosa – player Hector Wagner – player • • • • • • • Politics • Marcos Devers – first Dominican American to execute the role of mayor in the United States, as former Acting Mayor and Councilman of Lawrence, Massachusetts • Grace Diaz – Rhode Island state legislator; first Dominican American female to be elected to a state legislature in the United States • • • • • • • • 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dominican American Basketball geo_id=NBSP&-format=&-_lang=en. Retrieved on 2007-12-18. • Francisco Garcia – National Basketball [2] The terms "Dominican American" and Association (NBA) player "Dominican York" are rarely used within • Al Horford – National Basketball the community in the US. Recent studies Association (NBA) player in New York suggest most favored • Felipe López – National Basketball calling themselves simply "Dominican" Association (NBA) player see Jorge Duany, El Barrio Gandul, • Charlie Villanueva – National Basketball Economia subterranea y migracion Association (NBA) player indocumentada en Puerto Rico, 1995 • Trevor Ariza – National Basketball [3] "B03001. HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN Association (NBA) player BY SPECIFIC ORIGIN - Universe: TOTAL • Tito Horford – National Basketball POPULATION". 2006 American Association Former (NBA) player Community Survey. United States • Luis Flores – National Basketball Census Bureau. Association (NBA) player http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ DTTable?_bm=y&Boxing ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&• Carlos Cruz – world boxing champion CONTEXT=dt&• Leo Cruz – world boxing champion, mt_name=ACS_2006_EST_G2000_B03001&Carlos’ younger brother redoLog=false&• Joan Guzman – world boxing champion currentselections=ACS_2006_EST_G2000_B03001&• Juan Guzmán – world boxing champion geo_id=01000US&-format=&-_lang=en. • Eleoncio Mercedes – world boxing Retrieved on 2008-05-01. champion [4] "Custom Table - American FactFinder; Other sports C03001. HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY SPECIFIC ORIGIN". 2006 American • Luis Castillo – National Football League Community Survey, 2006 Puerto Rico (NFL) player Community Survey. United States • Edward Vinicio Espinal – association Census Bureau. football (soccer) player http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ • Mary Joe Fernández – tennis player and CTTable?_bm=y&-context=ct&television commentator ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&• Félix Sánchez – Olympic gold mt_name=ACS_2006_EST_G2000_C03001&medal–winning hurdler tree_id=306&-redoLog=false&• Jack Veneno – professional wrestler geo_id=01000US&geo_id=04000US01&Other notable personalities geo_id=04000US02&• Providencia Paredes – assistant and geo_id=04000US04&confidante to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis geo_id=04000US05&geo_id=04000US06&geo_id=04000US08&geo_id=04000US09&[1] ^ "United States - Selected Population geo_id=04000US10&Profile in the United States (Dominican geo_id=04000US11&(Dominican Republic))". geo_id=04000US12&http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ geo_id=04000US13&IPTable?_bm=y&geo_id=04000US15®=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201:405;ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201PR:405;ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201T geo_id=04000US16&qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201&geo_id=04000US17&qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201PR&geo_id=04000US18&qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201T&geo_id=04000US19&qr_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_S0201TPR&geo_id=04000US20&ds_name=ACS_2006_EST_G00_&geo_id=04000US21&TABLE_NAMEX=&-ci_type=A&geo_id=04000US22&redoLog=false&-geo_id=01000US&geo_id=04000US23&- Notes and references 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dominican American [5] [6] [7] [8] geo_id=04000US24&[9] Castro, Max J. (2002). The Dominican geo_id=04000US25&Diaspora Revisited, Dominicans and geo_id=04000US26&Dominican-Americans in a New Century. geo_id=04000US27&[10] "DANR - Dominican American National geo_id=04000US28&Roundtable". http://www.danr.org/ geo_id=04000US29&ip.asp?op=Elected. Retrieved on geo_id=04000US30&2008-06-09. geo_id=04000US31&[11] Yahaira Castro (2004-10-26). geo_id=04000US32&"FRONTLINE/WORLD. Election 2004 geo_id=04000US33&Dominican Republic". geo_id=04000US34&http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/ geo_id=04000US35&elections/dominicanrepublic/. Retrieved geo_id=04000US36&on 2008-06-09. geo_id=04000US37&[12] "DANR Congratulates Junot Diaz as first geo_id=04000US38&Dominican American To Win Pulitzer geo_id=04000US39&Prize". http://www.danr.org/ geo_id=04000US40&ip.asp?op=Press080408. geo_id=04000US41&[13] "Junot Díaz wins Pulitzer for ’Oscar geo_id=04000US42&Wao’". http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/ geo_id=04000US44&2008/diaz-pulitzer-0407.html. geo_id=04000US45&[14] "DR-1 Daily News - May 4, 2006". geo_id=04000US46&http://dr1.com/news/2006/ geo_id=04000US47&dnews050406.shtml#10. geo_id=04000US48&[15] "The Best Analysts - Earnings geo_id=04000US49&Estimators". http://www.forbes.com/lists/ geo_id=04000US50&2006/26/Name_7.html. geo_id=04000US51&[16] "Dr. Rosa Perez-Perdomo addresses geo_id=04000US53&DANR 10th Annual National geo_id=04000US54&Conference". http://www.danr.org/ geo_id=04000US55&ip.asp?op=Press071126. geo_id=04000US56&[17] "Dr. Eduardo Sanchez addresses DANR geo_id=04000US72&8th Annual National Conference". search_results=01000US&http://www.danr.org/ dataitem=ACS_2006_EST_G2000_C03001.C03001_1_EST. ip.asp?op=Press050921. Retrieved on 2008-05-01. [18] "NY Sec. of State Lorraine CortesRodriguez, Carla E. (2000). Changing Vazquez to addresses DANR 11th Annual Race: Latinos, the Census, and the National Conference". History of Ethnicity in the United States. http://www.danr.org/ New York University Press. p. 9. ip.asp?op=Press080922. Latinos: Remaking America. Berkeley: [19] "President Barack Obama nominates University of California Press. Tom Perez as Assistant Attorney General 2002-06-17. for Civil Rights". "Ancestry Map of Dominican http://www.whitehouse.gov/ Communities". Epodunk.com. the_press_office/President-Obamahttp://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/ Announces-More-Key-AdministrationDominican-Republic.html. Retrieved on Posts-3-13-09/. 2008-01-26. [20] http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/pichardo "Top 101 cities with the most residents [21] http://juliotavarez.com/info/ born in the Dominican Republic (population 500+)". city-data.com. http://www.city-data.com/top2/ • Dominican American National Roundtable h135.html. Retrieved on 2008-07-29. External links Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_American" 7 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dominican American Categories: Hispanic American history, Ethnic groups in the United States, Americans of Dominican Republic descent, People of Dominican Republic descent This page was last modified on 18 May 2009, at 19:55 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 8