Author Archive for Cindy Amobi
Anteater Explores Differing Notions of Identity in Salvador, Brazil
“Morena!” a man shouted, trying to get the attention of my friends and me as we walked through a market on our way to Pelourinho, a historic barrio in Salvador, Brazil. “Negras belleza! De onde voces sao?” In Portuguese this roughly translates to “Beautiful Black girls! Where are you from?”
It was a simple enough question [...]
Wax: When in Brazil, Do as Brazilians Do (But Don’t Look!)
She was pretty, with cocoa-brown skin, what Brazilians, with their arsenal of racial classifications, might describe as “coffee with milk.” Her small afro was tied back with a headband, revealing a kind face and sympathetic eyes. She was standing in the small, warm room with what to most would have seemed like a welcoming smile. [...]
Anteaters Abroad: “Everything is Beautiful” in Salvador, Brazil
Since middle school, I had had my heart set on traveling to Italy, eating lots of pasta and taking hundreds of pictures of myself being romantic in a romantic country. I had once been consumed with the beauty of the “classics” through four years of high school Latin, four years that initiated my unfortunate decision [...]
UCI Begins Insourcing
workers: Union organizers remain concerned despite Drake’s promise of insourcing.
Workers and Students Unite
RALLY: Protest held in front of Aldrich Hall Wednesday leads to a sit-in and the arrest of 17 students.
17 Arrested For Sit-In In Aldrich Hall
On Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010 at approximately 9:30 a.m., 17 members of the UC Irvine community entered the fifth floor of Aldrich Hall and held a sit-in that would last until 11:20 a.m., when the first arrests began. The group, composed of 12 undergraduate students, two graduate students, and three service [...]
Bringing Democracy Back
“Do you support Democratizing Education?” Various forms of this phrase were scrawled across the ground in chalk and on posters along Ring Road early last Monday morning on the first day of winter quarter. By noon, some of the posters had disappeared and footsteps had carried away most of the chalk. But by then this [...]
Wayzgoose: Getting Better With Age
ASUCI kicked off its annual Wayzgoose Medieval Faire in Aldrich Park at 10 a.m. on Saturday. In collaboration with Celebrate UCI, Wayzgoose is an opportunity for incoming freshmen to get a taste of the many extracurricular activities the campus has to offer. The park remained packed throughout the day, which couldn’t have been better for a festival as there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.
Read. Realize. Resolve Racism.
Imagine this. You wake up in the middle of the night to use the restroom you share with your suitemates. In the morning, a friend stops by to show you a picture on his digital camera. It’s a picture of the white board on your door. However, instead of the usual funny pictures and inside jokes from hallmates and visiting friends, scrawled across the board is the word “NIGGER.” Trying to spare you the embarrassment, your friend erased the hateful word before more people could see it.
“West Side Story” Grows Young
Passion. Anger. Lust. Love. In these times of change, some things always stay constant. These are the emotions that will always define youth, and the reasons why a production of “West Side Story” can still be as popular and relevant today as it was 50 years ago.
