[RAICES] Book signing and talk March 10th

[Aymee Malena]

Hey guys,
I thought you guys might be interested in this event. A professor from Smith
will be signing and talking about her book "Black Behind the Ears: Dominican
Identity From Museums to Beauty Shops" on March 10th at Food for Thought Books.
Here's the info:


Food for Thought Books Collective

PRESS RELEASE
February 22, 2009


For Immediate Release
Contact:
Tanya Karakashian
Food for Thought Books


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*BOOKSIGNING and TALK:*

*Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Identity From Museums to Beauty Shops*

*with Local Author and Professor Ginetta Candelario*


* Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:00 p.m.*

*Food For Thought Books*

*Downtown Amherst MA*

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black behind the earsPlease join us for an author talk, book signing and
reception with Ginetta Candelario. Candelario will be reading from her
newest book; */Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Identity From Museums to
Beauty Shops/*, an innovative historical and ethnographic examination of
Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United
States. /Black Behind the Ears/explores what it means to be both
indigenous to the Republic (indios) and "Hispanic." Both indigeneity and
Hispanicity have operated as vehicles for asserting Dominican
sovereignty in the context of the historically triangulated dynamics of
Spanish colonialism, Haitian unification efforts, and U.S. imperialism.
Candelario shows how the legacy of that history is manifest in
contemporary Dominican identity discourses and displays, whether in the
national historiography, the national museum's exhibits, or ideas about
women's beauty./ Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Identity From Museums
to Beauty Shops/ was published by Duke University Press in 2007 and
received the Best Book Award from the New England Council of Latin
American Studies in 2008.

*Ginetta Candelario* is Associate Professor in Sociology and Director of
the Program in Latin American and Latina/o Studies at Smith College. She
is also a member of the Study of Women and Gender Program Committee, the
American Studies Committee, and the Five College Native American Indian
Studies Certificate Program at Smith College. Her research interests
include Dominican communities and identity formations, race and
ethnicity in the Americas, beauty culture, Latina/o communities and
identity formations, museum studies, Latin American and Latina feminisms.

Candelario's edited volume, _Miradas desencadenantes: Los estudios de
género en la República Dominicana al inicio del tercer milenio_, a
collection of recent gender and women's studies research in the
Dominican Republic, was published in April of 2005. Her current research
is on Dominican feminist thought and activism, 1880-1961, which she
plans to develop into a book length study.

She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Scholars Program, the
Rockefeller Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the City University
of New York Graduate Center, Smith College Mellon Fellowships, Five
Colleges, Inc., and the Rappaport Foundation. She was the Latina/o
Studies Program Track Chair and the Gender Section Co-Chair for the
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for 2006-2007. In addition,
she is on the editorial boards of various journals including:
_Meridians: Race, Feminism, Transnationalism_ and _Latin American and
Caribbean Ethnicities_.

Food for Thought Books is a not-for-profit, workers' collective
bookstore located in downtown Amherst. Owned and operated by its
workers, Food for Thought specializes in the following areas:
Progressive, Multicultural & Radical Politics, Queer Studies, Women's
Studies, multicultural & progressive childrens' books, and more.

This event is free an open to the public. For more information about
this event or Food for Thought Books please see: foodforthoughtbooks.com
or contact Tanya Karakashian by email: tanya at foodforthoughtbooks.com or
phone: 413-253-5432.



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