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    6. Masks of the Blacks: A Few Hunches on the Presence of Cuban Blacks in Contemporary Cuban Narratives

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Casamayor Cisneros,Odette (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Paris: Mouton
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Cahiers d'etudes Africaines
    Journal Title Details:
    42(1) : 7-29
    Notes:
    Although discussions of race disappeared from Cuban literature after the revolution of 1959, they reappeared as a result of Cuba's difficult economic situation in the 1980's

    9. Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Palmie,Stephan (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Durham, NC: Duke University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    399 p, Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmié argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from passion to reason, is a violation of the synergistic processes through which historically specific, moral communities develop the cultural forms that integrate them.

    10. <Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and its Diaspora, by Margarite Fernández Olmos; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert>. (Book review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Payne-Jackson,Arvilla (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    January, 2002
    Published:
    Washington, DC: Academy of American Franciscan History
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    The Americas
    Journal Title Details:
    58(3) : 484
    Notes:
    "The Spanish expression--la cultura cura (culture heals)--is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of a people"