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More important, and much more disturbing, is Choi's argument that the "many Chinatowns and barrio border towns in America...are not germinating places for Latino and Asian American cultures that are strongly felt by most Latinos and Asians in America." First, this statement reflects a narrow perception of the...
Lam wasn't by any means the only Latin American painter to make a mark in the Manhattan avant-garde of the '40s, but to see his place one needs to remember that the New York School of the '40s was not the exclusive pantheon of half a dozen Abstract...
I enjoyed Prelude to a Kiss and I loved "The Crying Game." I think there's a lot of interest right now in the question of what are the politics we live by, what are the roles. Whether they're sexual roles or ethnic roles, there's a whole lot...
But last year a study conducted by anthropologists William Jankowiak of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Edward Fischer of Tulane University found evidence of romantic love in at least 147 of the 166 cultures they studied. This discovery, if borne out, should pretty well wipe out the idea...
Among the things anthropologists -- often knobby-kneed gents in safari shorts -- tended to do in the past was ask questions about courtship and marriage rituals. This now seems a classic example, as the old song has it, of looking for love in all the wrong places. In many cultures, love...