Ginetta E B Candelario
Biographic Data
| ID | 244738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ginetta E B Candelario |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ginetta E B |
| FAMILY NAME | Candelario |
| SIGNATURE | CANDELARIO G E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Meridians Project’s Contribution to Theory in the Flesh
Milestones and Momentum: The Meridians Project at Twenty-Five
Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 1
In Someone Else’s Country: Racism and Liminal Legality in the Dominican Republic , by Trenita Brookshire Childers
At a brief but content-rich 177 pages, In Someone Else's Country adroitly covers all of the relevant terrain that readers, from the newcomer to Dominican Studies to the scholar-expert, need to traverse in order to understand the convoluted anti-Haitian strategies deployed by the Dominican state to de-nationalize hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent (dohd); to limit Haitian immigrants' access to residency documentation and natura…
Who's Terrorizing Who
Speaking Our Peace
Hair Race-ing
Use to beYa could learn a whole lot of stuffsitting in thembeauty shop chairsUse to beYa could meeta whole lot of other womensittin' therealong with hair fryingspit flyingand babies cryingUse to beyou could learn a whole lot abouthow to catch upwith yourselfand some other folksin your household.Lots more got taken care ofthan hair . . . .—Willi Coleman, “Among the ThingsThat Use to Be”At the most banal level, a beauty shop is where women go for b…
Color Matters: Latina/o Racial Identities and Life Chances
La ciguapa y el ciguapeo: Dominican Myth, Metaphor, and Method
This essay considers how the myth of la ciguapa-an "indigenous," usually female creature with backward pointing feet-both suggests a metaphor for the contradictory coherence of Hispanic Caribbean history and society and becomes a method for contestatory movements. Beginning with a brief historicization of the myth's development in Santo Domingo, the author goes on to consider how the most recent decade of anti-Haitianism, negrophobia, misogyny, a…
Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
Voices from Hispaniola
Research Article| September 01 2004 Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Ginetta Candelario Ginetta Candelario Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004.5.1.69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ginetta Candelario; Voices from Hispaniola:…
"Black Behind the Ears"—and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic
This article considers the formation and representation of Washington, D.C.'s Dominican community in the Anacostia Museum's 1994 -1995 exhibit, Black Mosaic: Community, Race and Ethnicity Among Black Immigrants in D.C. The exhibit successfully pointed to the extensive historical presence of African Diaspora peoples in Latin America and explored the development of subsequent Diaspora from those communities into Washington, D.C. The case of Dominic…
Hair Race-ing
Research Article| September 01 2000 Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production Ginetta Candelario Ginetta Candelario ginetta candelario is an instructor in sociology and Latin American and Latina/o studies at Smith College and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate School. She has published articles on Dominican racial identity in the United States, on Latina HIV/AIDS activism, and on Domin…
Hair Race-ing
Research Article| September 01 2000 Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production Ginetta Candelario Ginetta Candelario ginetta candelario is an instructor in sociology and Latin American and Latina/o studies at Smith College and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate School. She has published articles on Dominican racial identity in the United States, on Latina HIV/AIDS activism, and on Domin…
"Black Behind the Ears"—and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic
This article considers the formation and representation of Washington, D.C.'s Dominican community in the Anacostia Museum's 1994 -1995 exhibit, Black Mosaic: Community, Race and Ethnicity Among Black Immigrants in D.C. The exhibit successfully pointed to the extensive historical presence of African Diaspora peoples in Latin America and explored the development of subsequent Diaspora from those communities into Washington, D.C. The case of Dominic…
La ciguapa y el ciguapeo: Dominican Myth, Metaphor, and Method
This essay considers how the myth of la ciguapa-an "indigenous," usually female creature with backward pointing feet-both suggests a metaphor for the contradictory coherence of Hispanic Caribbean history and society and becomes a method for contestatory movements. Beginning with a brief historicization of the myth's development in Santo Domingo, the author goes on to consider how the most recent decade of anti-Haitianism, negrophobia, misogyny, a…
Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
Hair Race-ing
Use to beYa could learn a whole lot of stuffsitting in thembeauty shop chairsUse to beYa could meeta whole lot of other womensittin' therealong with hair fryingspit flyingand babies cryingUse to beyou could learn a whole lot abouthow to catch upwith yourselfand some other folksin your household.Lots more got taken care ofthan hair . . . .—Willi Coleman, “Among the ThingsThat Use to Be”At the most banal level, a beauty shop is where women go for b…
Hair Race-ing
Research Article| September 01 2000 Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production Ginetta Candelario Ginetta Candelario ginetta candelario is an instructor in sociology and Latin American and Latina/o studies at Smith College and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate School. She has published articles on Dominican racial identity in the United States, on Latina HIV/AIDS activism, and on Domin…
"Black Behind the Ears"—and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic
This article considers the formation and representation of Washington, D.C.'s Dominican community in the Anacostia Museum's 1994 -1995 exhibit, Black Mosaic: Community, Race and Ethnicity Among Black Immigrants in D.C. The exhibit successfully pointed to the extensive historical presence of African Diaspora peoples in Latin America and explored the development of subsequent Diaspora from those communities into Washington, D.C. The case of Dominic…
Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Perez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario
Voices from HispaniolaA Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Special Section. Art: From Silk Scarf, painted in the village of Matenwa, Lagonav, Haiti, by the Atis Fanm Matenwa/Women Artists of Matenwa Project [End Page 68] In October 2003, Meridians hosted its first Caribbean Women Writers Series, Voices from Hispaniola: Haiti a…
Voices from Hispaniola
Research Article| September 01 2004 Voices from Hispaniola: A Meridians Roundtable with Edwidge Danticat, Loida Maritza Pérez, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Nelly Rosario Ginetta Candelario Ginetta Candelario Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004.5.1.69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ginetta Candelario; Voices from Hispaniola:…
Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
La ciguapa y el ciguapeo: Dominican Myth, Metaphor, and Method
This essay considers how the myth of la ciguapa-an "indigenous," usually female creature with backward pointing feet-both suggests a metaphor for the contradictory coherence of Hispanic Caribbean history and society and becomes a method for contestatory movements. Beginning with a brief historicization of the myth's development in Santo Domingo, the author goes on to consider how the most recent decade of anti-Haitianism, negrophobia, misogyny, a…
Color Matters: Latina/o Racial Identities and Life Chances
Speaking Our Peace
Hair Race-ing
Use to beYa could learn a whole lot of stuffsitting in thembeauty shop chairsUse to beYa could meeta whole lot of other womensittin' therealong with hair fryingspit flyingand babies cryingUse to beyou could learn a whole lot abouthow to catch upwith yourselfand some other folksin your household.Lots more got taken care ofthan hair . . . .—Willi Coleman, “Among the ThingsThat Use to Be”At the most banal level, a beauty shop is where women go for b…
Who's Terrorizing Who
In Someone Else’s Country: Racism and Liminal Legality in the Dominican Republic , by Trenita Brookshire Childers
At a brief but content-rich 177 pages, In Someone Else's Country adroitly covers all of the relevant terrain that readers, from the newcomer to Dominican Studies to the scholar-expert, need to traverse in order to understand the convoluted anti-Haitian strategies deployed by the Dominican state to de-nationalize hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent (dohd); to limit Haitian immigrants' access to residency documentation and natura…
Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 1
Milestones and Momentum: The Meridians Project at Twenty-Five
The Meridians Project’s Contribution to Theory in the Flesh
History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)