Negra/Anger
Nina Simone once said that her life had been a constant struggle between blacks and whites…and that she had finally found her balance between the black and white keys of…
Read MoreJan 4, 2018 | Afro-Latin Americans, Music and Dance
Nina Simone once said that her life had been a constant struggle between blacks and whites…and that she had finally found her balance between the black and white keys of…
Read MoreDec 14, 2017 | Displacements, Exploring the Arts
This summer, I was an intern in Santiago’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights, the museum dedicated to the victims of Pinochet’s dictatorship. Since I was in Chile…
Read MoreJan 10, 2017 | Beauty, Black is Beautiful
While white actresses and models still dominate beauty and fashion magazines in Brazil, on my last few visits to Brazil, I’ve noticed that actresses of African descent such as…
Read MoreJan 10, 2017 | Beauty, Cholitas and Beyond
Right after attending my first llarqa aspiy celebration in November 2012, I jotted my description of this lively event in my fieldnotes: “We stood in a large circle…
Read MoreDec 17, 2016 | Music, Music Changing Lives
English + Español
n 2004, I got a surprising phone call from Santo Domingo on one cold winter night. I was then studying musical composition in Strasbourg, France, a great opportunity for a young Dominican…
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