Founded in 1992 at The City College of New York, the Dominican Studies Institute of the City University of New York is the first and only university-based research institute in the United States devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent.
Film, Video, Audio Collection
Dominican Studies Institute. Assembly Update. 1994
Dominican Studies Institute. Assembly Update. 1994. Assemblyman John Brian Murtaugh. Produced by Assembly Radio-Television and Photography. New York, 1994. English. Color; 29 minutes.
A Dialogue between Assemblyman Murtaugh and Professor Silvio Torres-Saillant, founding Director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at City College. Topics discussed are the Dominican experience in the United State with a concentration on the Washington Heights area, the experience of teaching ethnic studies at the City University of New York, and the importance of the Dominican Institute as a research unit of the University.
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Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR)
