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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For more information about the College, please call the Community Relations Office at (607) 436-2748 or send e-mail to Carol Blazina, Vice President for Community Relations.SUNY College at Oneonta - Ravine Parkway - Oneonta, NY 13820 - 607.436.3500
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