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Everyday racism: how to be a black ballet dancer in a white world by Judith Mackrell

Michaela DePrince proudly declares herself a 'poppy among the daffodils', as Precious Adams reveals she was advised by a teacher to lighten her skinOne of the most extraordinary stories told in Bess Kargman's 2011 documentary First Position is of Michaela DePrince, the young girl horrifically orphaned by the civil war in Sierra Leone, who was inspired to become a ballerina after seeing a photograph of a dancer in a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PM on November 28, 2013

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