Community Engagement Beyond the Buzzwords: Student Internalizations of the Land-Grant Mission

The mission statements of land-grant institutions consistently describe their students as “engaged.” Beginning with an analysis of the mission statements of Midwestern land-grant institutions, this study discusses the results of a pre- and post-test of a subculture of undergraduate students enrolled in a course with a required community engagement component. The study assesses the dissonance or alignment of the ways mission statements describe students and the ways students describe themselves

Raquel Cepeda\u27s Digital and Literary Publics: Twitter and Bird of Paradise

This study charts language use in two public spheres: literary and digital. Cepeda’s 2015 memoir Bird of Paradise, much like fellow Dominican American author Junot Díaz’s works, utilizes untranslated code switching and requires both linguistic and cultural translations on the part of the reader. Cepeda’s digital public, analyzed via her active Twitter account with over 11,000 followers, employs language in different ways to reach a wider, transnational audience. This essay considers how both Cepeda’s literary and digital spheres connect her to a diverse readership and can be considered examples of (digital) activism

Review of Daring to write: Contemporary narratives by Dominican women

Numerous anthologies of Caribbean writers—and, more specifically, anthologies of Caribbean women writers—have been published in the last 20 years. Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers (2011) and Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad (2005) represent two similarly curated anthologies that complement earlier volumes compiling the works of Caribbean and women writers. With the recent publication of Daring to Write, editor Erika M. Martínez focuses readers’ attention on a specific, often neglected, subset of Caribbean women writers: Dominicans. Martínez intentionally places little-known works of newcomers alongside fiction and nonfiction written by established Dominican writers such as Nelly Rosario, author of Song of the Water Saints; renowned Dominican poet Rhina Espaillat; Ángela Hernández; and Jeanette Miller. Hernández and Miller, among others, write in Spanish, and the translations of their stories by Achy Obejas succeed in bringing their work to new audiences. The anthology unites in a single volume the voices of Dominican women writing both on and off the island and reflects the myriad diasporic communities in which Dominican women reside, whether temporarily or permanently

The Border of Lights Reader

Border of Lights, a volunteer collective, returns each October to Dominican-Haitian border towns to bear witness to the 1937 Haitian Massacre ordered by Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. This crime against humanity has never been acknowledged by the Dominican government and no memorial exists for its victims. A multimodal, multi-vocal space for activists, artists, scholars, and others connected to the BOL movement, The Border of Lights Reader provides an alternative to the dominant narrative that positions Dominicans and Haitians as eternal adversaries and ignores cross-border and collaborative histories. This innovative anthology asks large-scale, universal questions regarding historical memory and revisionism that countries around the world grapple with today

Dialogando con Pedro Blas Julio Romero: su “Terreiro” sin fronteras

Pedro Blas Julio Romero, conocido y auto-identificado como el poeta negro , es poeta, novelista, gestor cultural, investigador, activista, y locutor de radio. Apasionado por la lucha social y cultural que ha llegado a definir su cartagenero barrio Getsemanf, su poesfa atraviesa los lfmites de su nativa Colombia y se desborda a otros espacios geograficos donde predominan las religiones africanas, la musica afroantillana y donde se manifiesta una historia comun definida por una constante lucha por el respeto y la dignidad de los conglomerados negros. En 1993 Romero gan6 el premio nacional de poesfa Jorge Artel con Rumbas (incluido en Obra poetica, 2009). Otras publicaciones incluyen Cartas del soldado desconocido (1971), Poemas de Calle Lomba (1988), y Panol de proa (2011). Despues de pasar mas de veinticinco afios de marinero, el poeta parece encontrarse mas enraizado en su querido Getsemanf, donde este enarbola una resistencia cultural con la que este barrio se ha enfrentado en los ultimas afios a una grosera como indolente amenaza de desalojo. Este barrio es representativo de la otra ciudad , la negada, la que no se desea ver, y se compara y se intersecta con otros espacios de periferia que Romero ha identificado en otras partes del mundo, reclamandolos como el suyo y asf uniendo la historia comun de los afroamericanos. Esta entrevista se realiz6 por videoconferencia el 27 de abril de 2016

Trilingual Contributor Biographies for The Border of Lights Reader: Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic

The following is a trilingual biography of the contributors for an anthology published by Amherst College Press. Biographies are available in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole .</p

Community Engagement Beyond the Buzzwords: Student Internalizations of the Land-Grant Mission.

The mission statements of land-grant institutions consistently describe their students as “engaged.” Beginning with an analysis of the mission statements of Midwestern land-grant institutions, this study discusses the results of a pre- and post-test of a subculture of undergraduate students enrolled in a course with a required community engagement component. The study assesses the dissonance or alignment of the ways mission statements describe students and the ways students describe themselves.This article is published as Myers, M.J., COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Beyond the Buzzwords: Student Perceptions of the Land-Grant Mission Before and After Community-Engaged Coursework. Partnerships: A Journal of Service Learning and Civic Engagement 11.1 (2020): 275-86. http://libjournal.uncg.edu/prt/article/view/1969/1446. Posted with permission

Editora Taller-Editorial Casa Duarte (1971- ) [Semblanza]

Editora Taller/Editorial Casa Duarte (1971- ) es reconocida como una de las más distinguidas casas editoriales en la República Dominicana. José Israel Cuello, periodista y editor, fundó la empresa y la dirigió, primero junto al sociólogo Carlos Dore Cabral y después junto a su esposa, Lourdes Camilo de Cuello. Desde el inicio, la meta de Taller fue hacer llegar la literatura dominicana a un público nacional y global. Con esa ambición en mente, se dio a conocer por su trabajo en el campo de la edición y la impresión de libros, periódicos, encartes y revistas que circulaban en los mercados nacionales, interisleños y extranjeros.This editoral is published as Myers, M.J.,Editora Taller-Editorial Casa Duarte (1971- ) [Semblanza] Alicante : Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2020. Posted with permission. https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/nd/ark:/59851/bmc099768