Day: August 5, 2014

  • “Now We Will Be Happy” is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity.

  • Afro-Chinese marriages boom in Guangzhou: but will it be ’til death do us part’? South China Morning Post Magazine South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-06-01 Jenni Marsh, Assistant Editor Jennifer Tsang and Eman Okonkwo at their wedding in Guangzhou in April. Photo: Jenni Marsh Guangzhou is witnessing many Afro-Chinese marriages, but the mainland’s…

  • American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Martín de Porres in Obama Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 97, Number 3, 2014 pages 376-384 DOI: 10.1353/sij.2014.0018 Chris Garces, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Problematizing the saintly reputation of seventeenth-century Dominican servant Martín de Porres, this article explores a little-known, late medieval Spanish form…