Collection: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) / Subject Term: 3 selected

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Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Dantas,Beatriz Góis (Author) and Berg,Stephen (Translator)
Format:: Book, Whole
Publication Date:: 2009
Published:: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 198 p., Compares the formation of religious traditions and ethnic identities in the Brazilian states of Sergipe and Bahia, revealing how they diverged from each other due to their different social and political contexts and needs.

Collection:: Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
Contributers:: Pérez Betancourt,Alvaro (Author)
Format:: Video/DVD
Language:: Spanish; Primarily in Spanish and Yoruba, with English subtitles;
Publication Date:: 1993
Published:: Berkeley, CA: University of California, Extension Media Center
Location:: African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:: 1 videocassette (37 min.), An ethnographic documentary which demonstrates the survival and strength of the Yoruba cultural and religious heritage in the contemporary life of Caribbean African-Hispanics. Documents a ritual ceremony that features dancing, singing, praying and drum beating, invoking the twenty-two Orishas, or deities of the Yoruba religion.

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