Tag: Lulu Garcia-Navarro

  • A New Orleans Company Shines A Light On Opera’s Diverse History Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2017-05-28 Malika Gumpangkum and Lulu Garcia-Navarro From left to right: Aria Mason (Rosalia), Ebonee Davis (Piquita) and Kenya Lawrence Jackson (La Flamenca) star in OperaCréole’s production of La Flamenca. Cedric A. Ellsworth/Courtesy of OperaCréole For many people, New…

  • For Affirmative Action, Brazil Sets Up Controversial Boards To Determine Race Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2016-09-29 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent When the test scores came out, Lucas Siqueira, 27, was really excited. His high mark on the Foreign Service exam earned him a coveted position at Brazil’s highly competitive Ministry…

  • Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign National Public Radio 2015-08-27 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent My parents are Cuban and Panamanian. I grew up in Miami. I travel broadly in Latin America but reside in Brazil, which speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. So what am I? This may seem an irrelevant question…

  • Dark-Skinned Or Black? How Afro-Brazilians Are Forging A Collective Identity Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-12 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent Sisters Francine and Fernanda Gravina have German, Italian, African and indigenous ancestry. (Lourdes Garcia-Navarro/NPR) If you want to get a sense of how complex racial identity is in…