©️2002 Stella Kalaw Filipina American, Foodways, Theater, Literature Doreen Gamboa Fernandez (1934-2002) Dr. Doreen Gamboa Fernandez was a prolific scholar who wrote extensively on food, culture, literature, education, theater, and performance. She is best known for writing on the Philippines’ foodways, from the dizzying array of street foods to distinctive regional specialties, and about the …
Pearl Primus, Rock Daniel, 1944, Barbara Morgan Archives African American, Dance, Ethnography, Theater Pearl Eileen Primus (1919-1994) Dr. Pearl Primus was a dancer, choreographer, educator, and anthropologist whose pioneering work not only explored and celebrated African, Caribbean, and African American dance forms and folkways, but also called attention to social issues faced by people of …
Photo by Studio Iris. Katherine Dunham in a 1960s publicity photograph. Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200003727/ African American, Dance, Ethnography, Theater Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) Katherine Dunham, one of the first dance anthropologists and Black modern dance choreographers, was an accomplished teacher, dance scholar, …
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Composers Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 12, 2022. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7f947850-e020-0130-79c8-58d385a7b928 African American, Music, Literature, Activism and African American, Music, Theater James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson (1871-1938) …