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...HOUSE ANSIEDADE BUILT. An original movement thesis piece by Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03. In Brazil, the party never stops, and there are samba, bossa nova, capoeira, caipirinhas and palm trees. Racism? Heck no. Americans? Welcomed with open arms. But there’s more than meets the eye. Reality and fantasy collide to produce disillusionment, and this play combines folklore, theater, music and movement in relation to cultural anxiety in Brazil and in the United States. Friday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Mar. 1, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Free...
...explored the emotional intensity of abstract works after his experience with racism caused him to move from New York to Paris in 1953. Delaney continued to paint portraits after leaving the United States, depicting Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Marian Anderson...
...that fame isn’t exactly the same on both sides of the Atlantic. When Smith came to the United States after the success of White Teeth, she suddenly found herself expected to answer some of the most perplexing questions facing American society, such as how to end racism. In Britain, at least, “they don’t expect 21-year-olds to know that kind of thing...
...heard racial slurs before, but the offhanded, public way in which it was said, and the way in which the same man smiled and nodded politely at me seconds later, as though my skin color and mere presence in the area connected me to his racism, shocked me more than the protest itself...
...away with racial preferences in university admissions, hiring and government contracts that not only fuel white resentment but send the message to blacks that they can't meet the same standards as everyone else. Swain's detractors say such steps amount to no more than a cowardly capitulation to racism, but she won't back down because she does not believe that blacks need the crutch provided by race-conscious policies. For Swain, a deeply devout evangelical Christian, such beliefs are not academic. Now 49, she went from being a high school drop-out and single mother in rural Virginia...