The Best-Selling Dominican Republic History eBooks of All Time

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Book Cover of Teresita Martnez-Vergne - Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916
3.94
| 2005 | 256 Pages
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Book Cover of Ginetta E. B. Candelario - Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops

By Ginetta E. B. Candelario – Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies at Smith College 

4.54
| 2007 | 360 Pages
Recommended for: 
Students of sociology, Latin American studies, and those interested in Dominican history and racial identity. Intermediate to Advanced readers.
Reviews:
Insightful Examination
Ethnographic Approach
Nuanced Analysis
Fresh Insights
Original Research
Negative Portrayal
Complex Concepts
  • Best Book Award from the Latino Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association
  • Best Book Award from the New England Council of Latin American Studies
Silvio Torres-SaillantGinetta E. B. Candelario’s Black behind the Ears argues compellingly that any serious effort to understand Dominican ideas and practices of race in the ancestral homeland as well as in the diaspora requires a large conceptual framework, a triangular geography of knowledge, and a cultural history formed by Dominican nation-building projects, the difficult plight of the Haitian Republic in the midst of a negrophobic world, the impact of U.S. racial thought, and the Latin American glorification of the Hispanic heritage. Candelario’s book remarkably dares to bring apparently disparate discursive sites to interact convincingly and engagingly in her analysis. The author renders facile readings of the Dominican chapter of the black experience in the Americas as exceptional or pathological simply unsustainable. She shows instead that it invites White Americans, African Americans, and other Latinos to revisit long-held assumptions about racial categories, ethnic identity, nationality, and the ideologies behind taking the ‘visible’ for ‘real’ in matters of race
Frank Andre Guridy[A] stimulating book. . . . Candelario breaks new ground with her analysis of racial formation in Dominican communities in the United States . . . . [Black Behind the Ears] should be widely read by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists in the fields of Latin American and Latina/o studies
Takkara Brunson[G]roundbreaking. . . . Black Behind the Ears is a well-researched analysis of the cultural sites through which various actors produce racial understandings in relation to national discourses. It is an important contribution to the study of race, gender and national identity within the Dominican Republic and its US-based migrant communities
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Dominican Republic History Book made by AI

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4.98
| 2024 | 30-300 pages
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All readers across all knowledge levels.
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Insightful
Focused
Highly Personalized
Easy to Read
Engaging
Actionable
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Book Cover of Lauren H. Derby - The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

By Lauren H. Derby – Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles 

4.53
| 2009 | 432 Pages
Recommended for: 
History enthusiasts, political science students, and those interested in Latin American politics and culture. Intermediate to Advanced readers.
Reviews:
Insightful Analysis
Broad Range of Topics
Captures Key Themes
Important Insights
Worth the Reading Effort
Academic at Times
Ponderous Prose
Recommended by Claudio Lomnitz, Denise Brennan, Frank Moya Pons and 4 others
Claudio LomnitzThe character of dictatorship—with its paradoxical reliance on coercive excess and pandering to the demos—has fascinated generations of Latin America’s most exciting fiction writers, from Miguel Ángel Asturias and Alejo Carpentier to Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, and Mario Vargas Llosa. The Dictator’s Seduction is an historian’s counterpart to this literature. Lauren Derby develops the ideas of these writers, takes further insights from anthropologists who have worked on state magic, and produces a methodologically innovative and entirely fresh history of the Dominican Republic under Rafael Trujillo. This is one of the most exciting works in contemporary Latin American political history
Denise BrennanBeautifully written and meticulously researched, The Dictator’s Seduction is essential reading for scholars of repressive regimes and the machinery of violence that keeps dictators in power. Rafael Trujillo insinuated himself into his citizens’ public and private lives. Lauren Derby connects Trujillo’s backstage political machinations and private obsessions with his public image and spectacles
Frank Moya PonsThe Dictator’s Seduction is an outstanding and original book that is surprising in its originality and depth and displays a clear command of this period in Dominican history. Experts and beginning students of Dominican affairs will find this book a worthy read
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