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...live music. And radio and TV stations--all government-run--are playing less timba, the Cuban version of salsa. These are the multiple threats: rock, electronica and, the biggest danger of them all, reggaeton--the Latinized hip-hop that has infiltrated from Puerto Rico, New York City and the Dominican Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Kleuddy Abreu, an 18-year-old Dominican-born student living in Hialeah, left the same polling site enthusiastically voicing her support for Obama. "We're not part of the old Cuban mentality here," she said. "Obama represents a fresh start for us." In Hialeah - which traditionally votes as high as 80% Republican in national elections - the old mentality may very well be passing. - By Siobhan Morrissey / Miami and Tim Padgett / Hialeah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

Julia Alvarez, the famous Dominican author whose work focuses on the immigrant experience, described her growth as a Latina author to a crowd of nearly 500 in Sanders Theatre last night...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Immigrant Author Finds Home in Books | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...five collections of poetry and five books—including “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”—Alvarez related the factors that shaped her evolution as an writer. She described her family fleeing from the dictatorial regime in their native Dominican Republic, as well as the subsequent struggle to find her identity and voice as a young immigrant to America...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Immigrant Author Finds Home in Books | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...could relate to a lot of her ideas, especially since my parents are immigrants from the Dominican Republic,” Varges said...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Immigrant Author Finds Home in Books | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

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