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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Dr. Ginetta Candelario, Associate Professor of
Sociology and Director of the Program in Latin American and Latina/o Studies
at Smith College, will present "What's Hair Got to Do with It: Dominican
Racial Identity Displays and Discourses" as the first installment of the
Ralph Watkins Lecture Series at the SUNY College at Oneonta in the
Center for Multicultural
Experiences in Lee Hall at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1. Admission to
the event is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to
attend.
Candelario is the author of Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Identity
From Museums to Beauty Shops, which was published in 2007. She edited
Miradas desencadenantes: Los estudios de género en la República Dominicana
al inicio del tercer milenio, a 2005 collection of gender and women's
studies research in the Dominican Republic. She is currently researching
Dominican feminist thought and activism from 1880 to 1961 for her next
book-length study.
Candelario has received fellowships from the Fulbright Scholars Program,
the Rockefeller Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the City University
of New York Graduate Center, Smith College Mellon Fellowships, Five
Colleges, Inc., and the Rappaport Foundation. She was the Latina/o Studies
Program Track Chair and the Gender Section Co-Chair for the Latin American
Studies Association in 2006-2007. In addition, she is on the editorial
boards of various journals including Meridians: Race, Feminism,
Transnationalism and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnicities.
The lecture series is being presented in honor of the late Professor
Emeritus Ralph Watkins of the SUNY Oneonta History and Africana and Latino
Studies Departments, who passed away last year. A specialist in
African-American and American history, Professor Watkins taught at the
College for over 30 years and served as Chair of the Africana and Latino
Studies Department for more than a decade.
More information about the series is available from the Center for
Multicultural Experiences at (607) 436-2663.
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