Discusses the ways in which Santeria gatherings produce an alternative use of otherwise stigmatized language for 'gay' practitioners. Through the use of distinctive language to reference all of these populations, we may rethink the relationship between identities and practices, and within that, gender presentations vis a vis identities.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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191 p., Comparing Cuban American and African American religiosity, this book argues that Afro-Cuban religiosity and culture are central to understanding the Cuban and Cuban American condition. It interprets this saturation of the Afro-Cuban as transcending race and affecting Cubans and Cuban Americans in spite of their pigmentation or self-identification.
2 vols, 602 p., Draws from a variety of fields and methodologies to study the art and ritual of Afro-Cuban religion in New Jersey and New York, as practiced by white and black Cubans from four periods of immigration/exile. It begins, however, by tracing the history of defining Lucumi (Cuban Yoruba) images, symbols, and institutions from the colonial period (ends 1898) through the first half of the 20th century. The balance of the dissertation focuses on the New York Metropolitan Area of the 1980s. The work explores how Afro-Cuban religion has evolved and flourished in relation to particular U.S. urban settings: how it has shaped and has been shaped by those settings, e.g., Union City, New Jersey and Manhattan.
