Making New York Dominican Plays gender roles

gender roles

and the enduring struggle of the Kurds to rule themselves

Their internationalism defined a new era of black political engagement with Africa

When he takes up rooms in “Chrysalis College”—a thinly veiled version of the 19th-century New York University building in Washington Square—he quickly finds himself infatuated with a young painter lodging there

they are stories of lives upended by a criminal legal system gone awry

Making New York Dominican Plays gender rolesLarge scale emigration from the Dominican Republic began in the early 1960s, with most Dominicans settling in New York City. Since then the growth of the city's Dominican population has been staggering, now accounting for around 7 percent of the total populace. How have Dominicans influenced New York City? And, conversely, how has the move to New York affected their lives? In Making New York Dominican, Christian Krohn Hansen considers these questions