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Section 4: Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • “Dominican Republic (Document 305) U.S. Relations with the Dominican Republic,” Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, Public Domain, N DAT
    • “Parsley,” Rita Dove, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1983
    • “When a Dictator Becomes Part of Your Family,” Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, The Atlantic Media Co., 2016
    • “When a Dictator Becomes Part of Your Family, Cont’d,” Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, The Atlantic Media Co., 2016
  • Tradebook
    • In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010
  • Digital Access
    • “Dominicans, Haitians Remember Parsley Massacre,” Celeste Headlee, Julia Alvarez, and Edwidge Danticat, Tell Me More, National Public Radio, 2012
    • “‘El Jefe’ Portrait of a Dictator,” Bill Leonard, CBS News, 1961
    • “Parsley by Rita Dove,” Rita Dove, YouTube, 2012
    • “Remembering to Never Forget: Dominican Republic’s ‘Parsley Massacre’,” Mark Memmott, The Two Way, National Public Radio, 2012