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Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World

Autor Solimar Otero

Editorial UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS

Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World
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Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to ...

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  • Editorial UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS
  • ISBN13 9781580463263
  • ISBN10 1580463266
  • Tipo LIBRO
  • Páginas 247
  • Año de Edición 2010
  • Idioma Inglés
  • Encuadernación Tela

Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World

Autor Solimar Otero

Editorial UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS

Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to ...

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Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became known as the Aguda. This community built their own neighborhood that celebrated their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic constructions of family and community play the role of narrating and locating a longed for home. By providing a link between the workings of nostalgia and the construction of home, this volume re-theorizes cultural imaginaries as a source for diasporic community reinvention. Through ethnographic fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times. Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation. Solimar Otero is an assistant professor of English and folklore at Louisiana State University.