Who is Peruvian? Who is Andean?
Can a Peruvian dancer who’s made a new life in New York City return after 15 years to her remote hometown in the Andes to reclaim her heritage?
Can a young American of mixed Peruvian and Puerto Rican heritage find her “inner Andina” (as I like to call it) by studying folkloric dance techniques in towns throughout [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Race Matters'
Who’s Peruvian? Film “Soy Andina” documents two dancers’ search for identity
October 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Art, Film, Music & Dance, Crossing Cultures, Race Matters
Tags: Crossing Cultures·film
Moby Dick, Herman Melville & “Strange, Sad” Lima
September 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Art, Film, Music & Dance, Race Matters
“…like a Lima tower, cutting my boat in two”
Rereading yesterday’s post on writers and Lima’s weather, I became curious about Herman Melville’s riff on Lima as “the strangest, saddest city thou can’st see.”
When did Melville visit Lima? What prompted him to go into spasms of melancholy?
A quick Google search revealed that the quote doesn’t belong to [...]
Tags: Lima weather
Why Not “A Gringa in Lima”?
February 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Crossing Cultures, Language, Race Matters
Because the g-word is (1) too loaded to serve as my moniker, and (2) I am more American than I care to admit.
Some reader is probably wondering, ‘Isn’t it incorrect nowadays to use the term American when referring to someone from the United States? Aren’t all people from South America Americans as well?”
Well, yes, for a long time that [...]