{"id":44979,"date":"2016-01-05T19:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44979"},"modified":"2016-01-05T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:00:40","slug":"at-a-santo-domingo-hair-salon-rethinking-an-ideal-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44979","title":{"rendered":"At a Santo Domingo Hair Salon, Rethinking an Ideal Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a Santo Domingo Hair Salon, Rethinking an Ideal Look<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2015-12-30<\/p>\n

Sandra E. Garcia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On my first trip back to the Dominican Republic<\/a> in 10 years, as I wandered down the streets of La Zona Colonial<\/a>, I noticed how their names were weighted with history. Calle de las Damas<\/a>, a street made specifically for the wives and daughters of noblemen from colonial times to walk down. Calle Jos\u00e9 Gabriel Garc\u00eda, named for a Dominican historian and journalist, among other things, who shares a first and last name with my father and made me think of him while I was there. Calle Isabel La Cat\u00f3lica where I felt a connection to my paternal grandmother, Isabel Mireya Garcia. Born in Bani<\/a>, she lived and died on the right side of Hispaniola<\/a> and raised my father in Santo Domingo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During my trip I would text my father pictures of the streets, and he would always text me back a story from his youth that occurred close to or near the street I was on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the street where I shook Pope John Paul II\u2019s<\/a> hand in 1979,\u201d he texted me, referring to Calle Padre Billini.<\/p>\n

He likened La Zona Colonial to Times Square<\/a>, but to me it resembled too much of the Old World.<\/p>\n

The cobblestones, the colonial-style houses that were more like haciendas, Christopher<\/a> and Diego Columbus\u2019s<\/a> house-turned museum \u2014 this all reminded me of the Spanish who once lived here and the continuing reverence for their influence in a country whose residents have African, European and Asian ancestry.<\/p>\n

Before I knew it, I was standing in front of the Miss Rizos Salon<\/a> on Calle Isabel La Cat\u00f3lica. This was a departure from that reverence.<\/p>\n

Long hair that hangs down your back has so long been the prevalent beauty ideal in the Dominican Republic that many residents who mastered hair-straightening on the island emigrated to the United States and opened successful salons throughout the country…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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