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...reception notwithstanding, however, the “local color” in which these books traffic reduces perceptions of the region to little more than cartoonish, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”-esque stereotypes.Harsh? Perhaps. Yet the breach between the possibilities for “diaspora?? fiction and the lackluster reality is disappointingly vast. To pull a book from the shelf at random, take Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie’s 2002 “Salt and Saffron.” “The stories that [narrator] Aliya tells are full...
Harvard’s lesser-known a cappella groups exemplify this sentiment best. In 2006, several members of the Callbacks formed KeyChange—a group specializing in music from the black diaspora??alongside current president Dara M. Wilson...
...summit, entitled “Unite Against AIDS: HIV/AIDS in Africa and the African Diaspora?? will bring together college and high school students to examine the HIV/AIDS crisis and inspire youth to combat the disease...
Unfortunately, these grim numbers have come to characterize life throughout the African diaspora??in the Caribbean, South America, and the United States as well. After sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean is the world’s most heavily infected region—with approximately 2.4 percent of the entire adult population carrying the disease. In the United States, AIDS is the number one cause of death for African Americans between the ages of 25 and 44, and black women are thirteen times more likely to contract the disease than white women, while black men are nine times more...
...summit, entitled “Unite Against AIDS: HIV/AIDS in Africa and the African Diaspora?? will bring local students together on April 23 to examine the HIV/AIDS crisis and inspire youth, ages 15 to 24, to combat the disease...