The intermarriage of Dominicans with partners of other ethnicities sometimes creates circumstances that, depending on the dominant ethnic presence in the environment surrounding the family, may lead the children to identify with the ancestry of one of their parents rather than the other. Sandra Maria Esteves, whose poetic voice pierced its way vigorously through the mostly male Nuyorican literary movement of the 1970s and continued to shine forth in the subsequent decades, has identified mainly with the ethnicity of her Puerto Rican father rather than that of her Dominican mother.</Torres-Saillant, Silvio. “Dominican-American Literature.” The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature, by Suzanne Bost and Frances R. Apapricio, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, pp. 41–53.>