Abstract: Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street a bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad...

Machine generated contents note: PART I. Leaving the Land of the Few 19 -- The Great Exodus: Its Roots 21 -- Explaining Dominican Migration 23 -- The Middle Class and the Urban Background: -- Deconstruction of a False Identity 26 -- The Making of a Migratory Movement: -- An Alternative Reading...