Minorities
The Grammy-nominated Latin American chorus Schola Cantorum de Venzuela will make its debut in Bloomington at IU Auditorium on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m.
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Scholars from across the United States are gathering this Friday (Sept. 23) at Indiana University Bloomington to share the latest policy-relevant research and to advance discussion of research methods to study the affairs of Muslim minorities in the West.
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As Hollywood heads into its annual summer blockbuster season, few, if any, major films will feature minority characters, due to studio executives' fears that white audiences will stay away, which a new Indiana University study appears to confirm.
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"Borders and Pathways: Shaping Identity in Modern America" is the theme for Indiana University's 2011 observance of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Many events, including Taste of Asia, will offer support for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
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Indiana University announced today (Oct. 14) that renowned opera singer Angela Brown, who honed her craft at the Jacobs School of Music, has selected IU's Archives of African American Music and Culture as the repository for her collected papers and an array of items related to her career. "Being from Indiana and having graduated from IU, Angela is well-known, revered, and has a legacy in this state," said IU Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Portia Maultsby, director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture.
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The United States is often called a nation of immigrants, a "melting pot" where people from across the globe can pursue their dreams. But waves of immigrants from Latin America, Asia and Africa have strained that image, raising questions about the resilience of American democracy. In Newcomers, Outsiders and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century, Indiana University professor Yvette Alex-Assensoh and three co-authors examine how changes in immigration have affected the efforts of long-standing U.S. minority groups to gain full democratic inclusion in American society.
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