id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4332 Dominican Americans - Wikipedia .html text/html 8642 988 61 The prevalence of the 'other race' category probably reflects the large number of people who identify as mixed African and European ancestry in the Dominican Republic, where 73% of the population identified as being of mixed European and African descent, commonly known as mulatto, similar to other Caribbean Latinos.[31][32][33] Genetically, some are tri-racial, however, having also Taíno Native American ancestry. Another Dominican-American writer and poet, Elizabeth Acevedo, was born in New York City.[55] She is the winner 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children's Fiction, and the Pura Belpré Award.[55] She also won the National Poetry Slam Competition.[55] She received her bachelor's degree at The George Washington University in performing arts, and she received her MFA in creative writing at the University of Maryland.[55] Some of her works include Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths, The Poet X, With The Fire On High, "Afro-Latina" and "Hair". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4332.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4332.txt