Dominican American Politics
Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians
Author: Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
In this book, Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco provides a new perspective on the political development of an ethnic community that has been neglected in the studies of Latinx political development and debunks theories about immigrant communities’ representation in U.S. electoral politics.
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In this book, Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco provides a new perspective on the political development of an ethnic community that has been neglected in the studies of Latinx political development and debunks theories about immigrant communities’ representation in U.S. electoral politics.
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In this book, Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco examines the politics of empowerment of Dominican Americans in the United States. Covering the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Jiménez Polanco provides a new analytical perspective to understand the political development of a growing ethnic community that has been historically neglected in the studies of Latino/a/x political development and whose peculiar characteristics represent a paradigmatic case that debunks pervading theories about immigrant communities’ participation and representation in U.S. electoral politics. Rich archival research and interviews with key Dominican American leaders and activists shed light on how some patterns followed by Dominican Americans in their political empowerment correspond to those of other Latino/a/x communities, while other patterns distinctly diverge from that common trend. Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians serves as a perfect companion for courses on Latino/a/x and Dominican studies and U.S. ethnic politics.
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“A much-needed scholarly contribution to understanding how Dominican American communities, defying exclusion, and daringly engaging local, state, and federal structures of civic participation, have developed a collective political muscle in the Northeastern United States during the last half-century, changing the ethnic political landscape of a megacity like New York. Blending institutional analysis and ethnography, Jiménez Polanco’s work sets a path for future studies that should further deepen her findings. A very welcome tool for those trying to teach Dominican Studies in U.S. higher education today.”
Anthony Stevens-Acevedo, Historian, former Assistant Director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
In Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco presents the most complete narrative to date about Dominicans’ involvement in U.S. politics. This is a mature writing by an author who has experienced, observed, and patiently studied the process of politization undertaken by the Dominican people in the United States. Jiménez Polanco’s discussion brings attention to the relationship between the development of leadership and rooted, established communities on U.S. soil, and how both became stakeholders with whom the other ethnic and interest groups need to negotiate and reckon with. Taking into account Juan Rodríguez, Jiménez Polanco portrays the Dominican political leadership in the U.S. as decisive and assertive, conscientious and meticulous in demarcating and marking the spaces where it gravitates. This book goes through the politization of Dominicans with ease, from spontaneous community activism to formal organizing and recording, and the rise of electoral politics in Dominican-dominated spaces and beyond. In a challenging conclusion that seeks to materialize a tacit assumption, Jiménez Polanco argues convincingly that the ancestral land’s steady and strong tradition of political involvement influenced the birth of Dominican political participation in the U.S.
Ramona Hernández, Professor of Sociology and Director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
About the Author
Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She holds a Ph.D. in political science and sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a concentration in political changes in contemporary democracies. Dr. Jiménez Polanco is the author of Los partidos políticos en la República Dominicana: Actividad electoral y desarrollo organizativo and Corrupción y cartelización de la política en la República Dominicana and co-editor of Dominican Politics in the Twenty First Century: Continuity and Change. She was granted a PSC-CUNY Award in 2023.
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