BY ELIZABETH LLORENTE
NorthJersey.com
STAFF WRITER
Dominican-Americans are independently counting up their ethnic community in New Jersey to address what they say is longtime undercounting of their population by the U.S. Census Bureau.
In Paterson, the first city where sampling is nearly complete, those involved in the project say they have counted at least 40,000 residents of Dominican Republic origin. That is almost the same number of Dominicans the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey found in Passaic County. The census counted 23,800 in Paterson.
“We’re taking matters into our own hands,” said Jacelyn …

through November 15, 2003
Second Floor Gallery
Curated by María Teresa Feliciano, Wendy Martínez and Charles F. Cummings
Dominicans in New Jersey: A Community on the Move is a salute to one of the state’s fastest growing Latino populations. It is the first exhibition in New Jersey honoring one of the state’s newest communities, which is predominately located in Passaic, Essex, Union and Middlesex counties.