The Status of African American Men in the New York City Construction Industry

Tina Benko is an American stage, screen and television actress who has steadily trodden the Broadway boards for twenty years while starring in films and TV series and teaching acting and movement in New York City. An intensely focused and versatile performer, Benko has played in a broad variety of genres, ranging from screwball and Shakespearean comedies to realistic Russian, Scandinavian and American plays. In this interview, she discusses the factors that attracted her to drama and theatre, her acting training and approach to character-building, and theatre as a space for healing and reconciliation as she experienced it while working in Desdemona (2012), a cross-cultural theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello staged by American theatre and opera director Peter Sellars, with texts by African American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, and music and lyrics by Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré.

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A Tale of Two Cities I

Dancing Revolution ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252042393.003.0003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 29-46

Author(s):

Christopher J. Smith

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New York ◽

New York City ◽

African American ◽

York City ◽

Primary Source ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Cultural Experiences ◽

Two Cities ◽

English Speaking

The first of two companion chapters, this essay focuses especially on the historical meeting of European and African American movement vocabularies in English-speaking early-nineteenth-century contexts. It focuses particularly upon public music and dance in two creolized cities: Kingston, Jamaica, and New York City. Primary source evidence includes period illustrations (most notably, a ca. 1802 watercolor entitled A Grand Jamaica Ball) and period accounts of entertainments at lower Manhattan’s African Grove Theater; both are analyzed for the evidence they provide regarding the synthesis of creolized movement vocabularies and, by extension, cultural experiences. Methodology is drawn especially from iconography and kinesics.

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Fortitude

Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields - Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8870-2.ch008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 194-226

Author(s):

Robert S. Kurtz

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Medical Education ◽

New York City ◽

African American ◽

Behavioral Health ◽

York City ◽

Residency Education ◽

Educational Process ◽

Health Issues ◽

Covert Racism

In New York City, from the 1990s to the present, covert racism is alive and well in the field of medicine and medical education. The most heavily impacted are African American and Caribbean American females and males. The inequitable treatment thus engendered has concrete results ranging from unwarranted criticism in residency education to forced changes of medical occupations and jobs, to false attributions of behavioral health issues. Combating these challenges requires fortified character armor, seeking percipient well positioned minority, white and off-whites allies, and a willingness to maintain continued vigilance. With persistence and tenacity, success is possible in terms of protecting minorities both in the educational process, and in a mature medical life.

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