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Alvarez, Julia (1991). How the Garcia Girls lost their accents, New York: Plume Book.

Aponte, Sarah. (1999). Dominican Migration to the United States, 1970-1997: An Annotated Bibliography, Dominican Research Monographs, New York: The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.

Bello, Jose (2001). “El concepto de Dominico Americano. ?Como llamarlos-nos?.” Estudios Sociales Vol. XXXIII, No. 123.

Betsy Guzman (2001). “The Hispanic Population. Census 2000 Brief.” Retrieved May 2001 from the World Wide Web www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-3.pdf

Camarota, Steven A. (2001). “Immigrants in the United States –2000. A snapshot of the America’s Foreign-Born Population.” Retrieved June 2001 from the World Wide Web www.cis.org/articles/2001/back101.html.

Candelario, Ginetta. (1999) “On Whiteness and Other Absurdities: Preliminary Thoughts on Dominican Racial Identity in the United States.” La Republica Dominicana en el umbral del Siglo XXI. Cultura, politica y cambio social. Eds. Ramonina Brea, Rosario Espinal and Fernando Valerio-Holguin. Santo Domingo: Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, 1999.

Castro, Max (1985) "Dominicans Journey: Patterns, Context, and Consequences of Migration from the Dominican Republic to the Unites States." Ph.D. Diss., Chapel Hill: N.C.: University of North Carolina.

Cocco de Filippis, Daisy (2000). Documents of Dissidence, Selected Writings by Dominican Women. (editor and principal translator). New York: Foundational Series, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, 2000.

Cocco de Filippis, Daisy. (1994) Stories From Washington Heights and Other Corners of the World, A Bilingual Selection of Short Stories Written by Dominicans in the U.S (co-editor with F. Gutierrez). New York: A Publication of the Latin American Writers Institute, 1994.

Cocco de Filippis, Daisy. (1999) “Palabras para rescatar existencias: De diaspora, nacionalidad, escritura y marginalidad,”in La literatura dominicana al final del siglo: Dialogo entre la tierra natal y la diaspora, Daisy Cocco De Filippis, editor. New York: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, Working Paper Series No. 2, 1999, 2-11.

Duany, Jorge (1998). "Reconstructing Racial Identity: Ethnicity, Color, and Class among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico." Latin American Perspectives 25:3 (1998):147-172.

Duany, Jorge (1995) El Barrio Gandul: economia subterranea y migracion indocumentada en Puerto Rico. Coauthored with Luisa Hernandez Angueira and Cesar A. Rey. Caracas: Nueva Sociedad.

Duany, Jorge (1994). Quisqueya on the Hudson: The Transnational Identity of Dominicans in Washington Heights. Dominican Research Monograph 1. New York: Dominican Studies Institute, City University of New York, 1994.

Duany, Jorge (1990). Los dominicanos en Puerto Rico: migracion en la semi-periferia. Edited volume. Rio Piedras: Ediciones Huracan, 1990. Pp. 132.

Fischkin, Barbara (1997). Muddy Cup. A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America, New York: Scribner.

Georges, Eugenia (1990). The Making of a Transnational Community: Migration, Development, and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic. New York: Columbia University Press.

Goris, Anneris (1994). "The role of the ethnic community and the workplace in the integration of immigrants: A case of Dominicans in New York City." Ph.D. Diss., New York, NY: Fordham University.

Graham, Pamela M (1996). "Re-imaging the nation and defining the district: The simultaneous political incorporation of Dominican transnational migrants." Ph.D. Diss., Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina.

Grasmuck, Sherri (1996) "First and Second Generation Settlement of Dominicans in the United States: l960-l990." Eds. Silvia Pedraza and Ruben Rumbaut. Con Patricia Pessar. Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America. Belmont: Watsworth Press, l996. 280-292.

Grasmuck, Sherri (1996). "Islanders in the States: A Comparative Account," Refugio Rochin (ed.) Immigration and Ethnic Communities: A Focus on Latinos. Con Ramon Grosfoguel. Conference proceedings. East Lansing: Julian Samora Research Institute. 39-48.

Grasmuck, Sherri and Patricia Pessar (1991). Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration. Berkeley: University of California Press, l991.

Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo (1992). "One Country in Two: Dominican-Owned firms in New York and in the Dominican Republic." Ph.D. Diss., Baltimore, Maryland : The Johns Hopkins University.

Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo (1994). "Los Dominicanyorks: The Making of a Binational Society." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 533 (1994): 70-86.

Hendricks, Glenn (1974). The Dominican Diaspora: From the Dominican Republic to the New York City-Villagers in Transaction. New York, NY: Teacher College Press.

Hernandez, R. & Rivera-Batiz, F. (1997). Dominican New Yorkers: A Socioeconomic Profile, 1997. New York, N.Y.: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.

Hernandez, R. & Torres-Saillant, S. (1996). "Dominicans in New York: Men, Women, and Prospects." In D Baver and G H. Viera (Eds.), Latinos in New York (pp. 30-56). Notre Dame, IN.: University of Notre Dame Press.

Hernandez, Ramona (1997). The Mobility of Labor under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States. Ph.D. Dissertation, The City University of New York.

Hoffman-Guzman, Carol (2000) " Maverick Migration: The Middle-Class Dominicans of South Florida, " doctoral dissertation in progress, Florida International University, Florida.

Itzigsohn, Jose and Dore-Cabral, Carlos (2000). “Competing Identitites? Race, Ethnicity and Panethnicity among Dominicans in the Unites States” in Sociological Forum, Vol.15, No.2

Itzigsohn, Jose, Carlos Dore Cabral, Esther Hernandez Medina, and Obed Vazquez. (1999). “Mapping Dominican Transnationalism: Narrow and Broad Transnational Practices.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 22: 316-339.

Jordan, Howard (1997). "Dominicans in New York: Getting a Slice of the Apple." NACLA Report on the Americas 30, no. 5, 37-42.

Levitt, Peggy (1996). “The transnationalization of civil and political change: the effect of migration on institutional ties between the United States and the Dominican Republic,” Ph.D. Diss., Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lopez, Nancy (1996). "Diploma, GED, No Diploma, Same Job: The meaning of Dropping Out Among Dominicans in New York City." In 1996 Working Papers Series, Center for Urban Research at The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York.

Pessar, Patricia (1995). A visa for a dream, Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Singer, A. & Gilbertson, G. (2000). Naturalization in the Wake of Anti-Immigrant Legislation: Dominicans in New York City (International Migration Policy Program/ CEIP, Working Papers, Number 10, February). Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Suro, Roberto (1998). Strangers Among Us. How Latino Immigration is Transforming America ( pp.179-203). New York, N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf.

Torres-Saillant, Silvio (2000). “Problematic Paradigms: Racial diversity and corporate identity in the Latino community” In Conference Papers: Emerging trends & interdisciplinary discourse in Latino Studies. Latino Studies Program: Cornell University, New York. April 14-15.

Torres-Saillant, Silvio (2000). Diasporic Disquisitions: Dominicanists, Transnationalism, and the Community. Dominican Studies Working Papers Series 1, New York, N.Y.: The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.

Torres-Saillant, Silvio (2000). El Retorno de las Yolas, Santo Domingo: Ediciones Libreria La Trinitaria y Editorial Manati.Torres-Saillant, S. and Hernandez, R. (1998). The Dominican Americans. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

Vega, B. and Despradel, R. (1999). Immigration Trends by Dominicans and other Caribbean nationals to the United States. Analysis of the trends in legal and illegal migration, criminal deportees and the negative impact of the 1996 U.S. immigration legislation (Dominican Embassy Document), Washington DC: Dominican Embassy.

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The Dominican Americans
by Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ramona Hernandez

Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration
by Sherri Grasmuck, Patricia R. Pessar
CaribbeanPoetics : Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature
by Silvio Torres-Saillant

High Literacy and Ethnic Identity : Dominican American Schooling in Transition
by Dulce Maria Gray

Soledad
by Angie Cruz
Muddy Cup : A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America
by Barbara Fischkin
The Beacon Best of 2000 : Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures (Beacon Anthology, 2000)
by Edwidge Danticat (Editor)
Drown
by Junot Diaz
Why the Cocks Fight : Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola
by Michele Wucker
The Dominican Republic: A National History
by Frank Moya Pons
The Transnational Villagers
by Peggy Levitt
The Making of a Transnational Community : Migration, Development and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic
by Eugenia Georges, Elaine Georges
How Tia Lola Came to Stay
by Julia Alvarez, Andrea Cascardi (Editor)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez
Yo!
by Julia Alvarez
The Secret Footprints
by Julia Alvarez, Fabian Negrin (Illustrator)
The New Family Cookbook : Recipes for Nourishing Yourself and Those You Love
by Bill Md. Eichner, Julia Alvarez
A Cafecito Story
by Julia Alvarez, Bill Eichner (Afterword)(September 2001)
   
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A VISA for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States
Patricia R. Pessar  Nancy Foner (Editor)

Be the One 
April Smith
Geographies of Home 
Loida Maritza Maritza Perez
Furioso Merengue Del Norte 
F. Deleon
The Dominican Americans 
Christopher Dwyer  Daniel P. Moynihan
Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream
Alan M. Klein
   
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