African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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210 p, Focuses on Villamil's life story. Covers the legacy of slavery in Cuba, Afro-Cuban religions, and the history of bata drums, the Cuban revolution, and life in New York as an immigrant
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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292 p, An author's spiritual search through Santeria from novice to priestess. She explains Santeria's main gods and goddesses, the spirit world, and rites and rituals
Gossai,Hemchand (Author) and Murrell,Nathaniel Samuel (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
New York: St. Martins Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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320 p, The Bible is the most widely read and influential book in the Caribbean. It seems to be everywhere and in every thing. The Bible has been used to name, claim, oppress, and exploit natives and the diaspora populations in the Caribbean, and it continues to define Caribbean reality and morality in the 21st century. In this anthology, scholars analyze the most fundamental assumptions and practices derived from different readings of the Bible at different epochs in Caribbean history. It tells a gripping tale of the struggle of ethnic peoples to find meaning, “existence,” and reality in a world they did not create; Includes a chapter that analyzes the songs of reggae singers Bob Marley and the Wailers for theological content, and another that examines the poetry of Ras Benjamin Zephaniah for biblical allusions