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    2. "Strangers in a new land": Palo Mayombe, an African-Cuban religious tradition in the diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nodal,Roberto (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Ann Arbor, MI
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    ProQuest Dissertations
    Notes:
    247 p., Discusses the diasporic origins of Palo Mayombe, a Kongo-Cuban religious tradition, while seeking to analyze how it fulfills, in a new transplanted setting, the spiritual needs of a given segment of the Cuban immigrant population in the United States—designated here as the “strangers in a new land”—“serving not only as a healing mechanism but also a vehicle towards the preservation of ethnic and cultural identity.”

    3. 'Maricon,' 'Pajaro,' and 'Loca': Cuban and Puerto Rican Linguistic Practices, and Sexual Minority Participation, in U.S. Santeria

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Vidal-Ortiz,Salvador (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011 Jul
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of homosexuality
    Journal Title Details:
    58(6) : 901-918
    Notes:
    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.

    7. Africanisms in American Culture

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Holloway,Joseph E. (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1991
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    249 p

    8. Africanos de Cuba

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lopez Valdes,Rafael L. (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    San Juan: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico Caribe
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    324 p

    9. Afro-Cuba: Mystik und Magie der afro-kubanischen Religion = mystery and magic of Afro-Cuban spirituality

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Caronia,Anthony (Author) and Alonso,Ania Rodríguez (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Text in English and German
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Published:
    Zurich: Benteli
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    159 p., Four years of research preceded this black-and-white photographic documentary into the mysterious world of Afro-Cuban religion.