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Book SynopsisHigh Literacy and Ethnic Identity describes the experiences of fifteen men and women who arrived with the first and second wave of immigrants from the Dominican Republic to the United States and who, despite the odds, succeeded in completing the highest level of formal educationâa doctorateâand are now educators in U.S. colleges and universities.
Trade ReviewDulce Gray's well written and documented book is a revealing study into autoethnography, this new way of finding seminal truth through thinking and writing about our own journey. The author takes the reader from deconstructing writing to reconstructing memory, thus giving voice not just to the Dominican or Latina experience in the US, but to all immigrants in their search for cultural identity -- Rei Berroa, George Mason University
I know of no other study that so lucidly and eloquently explores the link between high literacy and the configuration of identity for Americans of Dominican descent as well as for any U.S. minority community of recent immigrant background. Dulce Maria Gray here successfully applies autoethnographic scholarship to enhance our understanding of the forces that facilitate or hinder access to a sense of belonging in the sphere of Americanness. She does an impressive job of tracing her own intellectual growth from grade school to her present academic position, while at the same time drawing from the existing bibliography in her field to shed light on the lives of entire communities. -- Silvio Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University, author of The Domincan Americans
Dulce Gray's well-written and documented book is a revealing study into autoethnography. The author takes the reader from deconstructing writing to reconstructing memory, thus giving voice not just to the Dominican or Latina experience in the U.S., but to all immigrants in their search for cultural identity. -- Rei Berroa, George Mason University
As a kid, I had a friend, Juan Moreno. Mami would say "Es Dominicano." There was a meaning to that. I didn't understand. When my daughter read Julia Alvarez, I looked for other Dominican writers in English. There were none, according to the library's search engine. With this book, I discovered the other Latina of the Caribbean, la Domincana and el Domincano, in all their richness. And in the process, I learned more on how we‹Latinos or Latinas of the Caribbean‹succeed in a world that colors us. -- Victor Villanueva, Washington State University
Highly recommended for its contents and lyrical writing style. * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Talking Theories Chapter 3 Internal Geography: Acquiring High Literacy Chapter 4 Parents Chapter 5 Professors Chapter 6 Domican Cultural Markers Chapter 7 Ruminating. . .A Measure of Closure Chapter 8 Works Cited
