Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with stories by well known authors like Wolff, Stone and Cynthia Ozick, are the works of emerging talents like newly minted literary wunderkind Junot Diaz. "Fiesta, 1980"--which is also included in Diaz's critically lauded 1996 debut "Drown"--details a Dominican American boy's encounters with his father's Puerto Rican mistress and his experience at a lively family party. Here Diaz once again proves that he is one of the best young writers around not for what Proulx calls his distinct "cultural, ethnic, and class" perspective, but because underneath his deceptively simple, "street vernacular" prose...
...ancestry, often plays in Ridgefield Park, N.J., with friends of different races. Thecla says an older friend recently asked her why she hangs out with black people all the time: "She said, 'Look how loud and rude they are.'" Children of color face similar pressures. Cynthia Bou, 13, a Dominican-American friend of Thecla's, says an older cousin asked her why some of her friends are white. "White people are whack," she warned Cynthia. "You're going to change when they treat you wrong...
Moises Cascante, a Brown first-year, who is a Dominican, said that the debates and concert organizers have used a broad race definition for the conference, which he feels addressed all Latino concerns...
...occurs in TB patients who did not complete courses of antibiotics ? meaning the bacteria learns to tolerate the drugs already in the system. The study found MDR TB 'hot zones' in one-third of the 35 countries surveyed. Alarmingly high incidences were reported in the Baltic states and the Dominican Republic...
...expect, as a consequence of our visit to Harvard, that an exchange program will be initiated," said Jacqueline Malagon, the academic coordinator of Dominican Week...