When acruzwriter looked for photos of working-class Dominican women in NYC in the ’60s, she couldn’t find many. So, she decided to start an archive of her own
Angie Cruz. Photo: Courtesy of Flatiron Books Angie Cruz’s latest novel, Dominicana, is inspired by her mother’s life. As a girl in the Dominican Republic, Cruz’s mother was married off to a man twice her age so that her family could immigrate to the United States. In the novel, Cruz imagines her mother’s experience. Set in the 1960s, the book follows 15-year-old Ana Cancion, who immigrates from the D.R. to New York City after an arranged marriage to a much older man.
You’ve said you created @dominicanasnyc because there was a lack of representation in existing archives. Can you speak a bit more about that? People send me photographs of their mothers with a name and a date. I’ll write back and ask, do you have anything you want to say about your mom? And they’ll send me back three pages. I’ll say, can I publish any part of this? And they’ll say, publish it all! I’ve gotten a number of emails from people saying, thank you so much for this archive. I’ve never really thought about my family’s stories; about when they arrived. And now I’m asking them these questions.
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