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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Dominicans"”.
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City and island : Dominicans in Lawrence : transnational community formation in a globalizing world
… as well as the barriers and opportunities facing Dominicans in Lawrence, depend on a complex intersection of political, economic, cultural, and social forces linking the Dominican Republic and the City. Historic economic and political ties create strong objective and cultural-ideological links …
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Health-Related Beliefs, Practices, and Experiences of Migrant Dominicans in the Northeastern United States
… related to health, the ways that migrant Dominicans take care of their health in their new environment, and their experience with professional health care in the Northeastern United States.</p> <p><strong>Design: </strong>This descriptive qualitative study was guided by Leininger’s Theory …
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The Work of the Sinsinawa Dominicans in Secondary Education West of the Missouri River
… Most Holy Rosary, better known as the Sinsinawa Dominicans. It is the author's hope that the study will contribute in some small way to a more comprehensive study of the Catholic schools of the West and that it will enlist interest in their problems and a desire to answer their challenge.
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Depressive symptomatology among Dominicans: Links to acculturative and economic stressors, skin tone, and perceived discrimination
… of this dissertation were to explore among Dominicans: (1) the direct and indirect effects of sociodemographic factors and skin tone on psychological distress; (2) the relationships between various stressors (economic, perceived discrimination, and acculturative) and psychological distress; …
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Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race: A Historical Analysis
<p>The common misconception is that all Dominicans are racist – that Dominicans live in a Fanonesque reality where we believe we are white, but we clearly inhabit black bodies. These attitudes permeate Dominican society from the highest echelons of power to the everyday experiences of Dominicans on …
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Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis: Politics, Race, Culture, and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
… by the Dominican government to deny Haitians and Dominicans of Haitians descent citizenship. The right to citizenship is based on legal principles of jus soli and jus sanguinis and is recognized in a series of international legal documents. Following a Marxist framework, this research demonstrates …
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Culture Care Meanings, Beliefs and Practices of Rural Dominicans in a Rural Village of the Dominican Republic: An Ethnonursing Study Conceptualized within the Culture Care Theory
… and ten key informants, all of whom were rural Dominicans living in the village of Villegas 60 miles northwest of Santo Domingo. Exhaustive analysis of audio-taped interviews revealed eighteen categories and nine patterns from which three main themes emerged. The themes were (a) family presence …
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Fear of a Black Country: Dominican Anti-Haitianism, the Denial of Racism, and Contradictions in the Aftermath of the 2010 Earthquake.
… (DDN), continue to resonate amongst "everyday" Dominicans and within the recently amended 2010 Dominican constitution that denies citizenship to Dominicans of Haitian descent in the aftermath of the earthquake. I conclude that although the new constitution reinforces the anti-Haitian ideals …
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Perceived intercultural impacts of tourism in the Dominican Republic: A rural host community perspective
… into intercultural interactions between Dominicans and tourists exists. This thesis brings together some of the current studies on intercultural communication in regards to the tourism industry, perceived community attitudes towards tourism, and host-guest relationships in the tourism …
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Renaissance Thomism at the University of Padua, 1465-1583
… to Christian faith. The connection between the Dominicans and humanism also contributed to Renaissance Thomism at Padua. While critical of certain perceived excesses in humanism, the Paduan Dominicans recognized and embraced the progress in Latin eloquence, Greek learning, and historical and …
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Go Into All the World: Moral-Subject Formation through Evangelical Short-Term Missions from the United States to the Dominican Republic
… unequal power relations between Americans and Dominicans. STMs expose American volunteers to striking socioeconomic and racial inequalities, which could powerfully (re)shape their worldviews by raising their awareness, for example, of the exploitative working and living conditions behind a …
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"""Lo Nuestro es lo Verdadero:"" Cultural politics, musical nationalism, and the image of Brazil in Dominican National Carnival"
… behind the discrepancies between “what Dominicans say” and “what Dominicans do” through analysis of the Dominican National Carnival Parade in Santo Domingo. This conflict is particularly salient between the discourse of Dominican state cultural politics and the actual practices of its …
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LA FIESTA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO: AN ORIGINAL WORK FOR CHOIR, SOLOISTS, AND SMALL ENSEMBLE INFLUENCED BY THE SANTERIA MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN-DOMINICAN COMMUNITY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
… role of Santería music as practiced by African Dominicans in Villa Mella, a neighborhood of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This musical tradition comes from the culture and religion of the Yoruba people who were brought as slaves from Africa, and features complex drum rhythms and …
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Performing Blackness in a Mulatto Society: Negotiating Racial Identity through Music in the Dominican Republic
… Haitian racial identity. I argue that although Dominicans have not developed an explicit verbal discourse of black affirmation, blackness (albeit a contextually contingent articulation) is embedded in popular conceptions of dominicanidad ("Dominicanness") and is enacted through music. My …
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The capital of carnival: Alibabá carnival music and dance in Santo Domingo as social enterprise and performance complex
… political, and economic choices of everyday Dominicans living in inner-city neighborhoods, in relation to intersecting local and regional policy and economic structures, and a larger world. I show that Alibabá is essential to these communities because it represents one of the few …
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A Survey of the Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasites and Associated Risk Factors in Children in a Rural City of the Dominican Republic
… southeastern corner of the country where many Dominicans and Haitians migrate to for work in support and expansion of the tourist industry of Punta Cana. Few studies of the prevalence of gastrointestinal (GI) parasitic infections have been published in the DR. Presently, there is a high …
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Experiential Blackness: Race, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Dominican Society
… devoid of a black consciousness. They argue that Dominicans deny their African ancestry because of their hatred toward their African descent Haitian neighbours, even though the two island nations share the same land mass, traditionally known as Hispaniola. In this thesis, I argue that despite …
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The Western Religious Orders in Medieval Greece
… the Cistercians, the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Crociferi, and the Augustinians as well as other orders, with a smaller involvement in medieval Greece, like the Servites, the Carmelites and the Canons Regular. Each of the thesis's chapters focuses on one particular Order (or group …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
… as pale imitators of the Franciscans and the Dominicans. My major re-evaluation of the Augustinians’ artistic legacy reveals them to be innovative patrons who used art discerningly to promote a distinctive identity, with much wider implications for our prevailing understanding of Franciscan …
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La storia della provincia sarda dell’Ordine dei Predicatori tra Otto e Novecento: censimento delle soppressioni, dispersioni e presenze archivistiche
… events that characterised the presence of the Dominicans in Sardinia. Offering particular centrality to the study and analysis of curial archives (general and provincial), an attempt has been made to characterise the presences, absences and dispersions of the Dominican documentary complexes …
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