Zambernardi introduces readers to the tonnara: the system through which one of the giants of the sea, the bluefin tuna, has been fished on these shores for millennia. Through ethnographic research over several years, sailing with crews of rais (fishing chiefs) and tonnarotti (tuna fishermen) in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, Zambernardi explores the tonnara from the inside to show how this fishing method works and what is left of it today.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir considers the work of hiphop dancer and choreographer Shailesh Bahoran to articulate how movement and dance can suture together histories of migration.
I don’t usually write about ballroom dance but today I will. My parents (my father and my mother before she passed) have been part of the Asian American ballroom dance community in Southern California since the late 1980s. Like many other first-generation Asian immigrants who came to the US because...
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