Posts Tagged ‘Silvio Torres-Saillant’

Beyond ESL

Friday, April 5th, 2013
Josefina Baez, author and performance artist, reads from her work at the Point of Contact Gallery on East Genesee Street on Thursday.

Author, educator, photographer and performance artist Josefina Baez came to the Point of Contact Gallery on East Genesee Street on Thursday. She read from her acclaimed collection Dominicanish (with a prologue written by SU professor Silvio Torres-Saillant).  The reading alternated between Spanish and English and featured themes such as cultural identity and relationships.  I don’t wait to be inspired, I just live, Baez told one of the students.

Race Matters

Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Silvio Torres-Saillant

Silvio Torres-Saillant

Syracuse University professor Silvio Torres-Saillant appeared on the PBS series “Black in Latin America”  last week.  He talked about the early Dominican Republic nationhood and origin of blackness on the island of Hispanola.