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Africa and africans in the making of the atlantic world, 1400 1800. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read yemoja. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the latinao and afroatlantic diasporas. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world explores how yoruba and. Constructing and contesting social control in modern latin america, co. Orisha practices and afro cuban orisha practitioners in twentieth century cuba could have perhaps addressed this gap in oteros analysis. If youve been by the stone center library lately, you may have noticed some great new books on display. Dec 09, 2011 afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world.

Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the latinao and afro atlantic diasporas. Afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world is overall an innovative study that aptly points to the linguistic, cultural, and geographic expansiveness of afro atlantic. Aug 01, 2012 solimar oteros afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world is a welcome addition to the increasing number of studies focusing on the history of african individuals and peoples within the atlantic world context. For the minor field, all students should generate a list of at least 50 books one.

This book reveals how yemoja traditions are negotiating gender, sexuality, and cultural identities in bold ways that emphasize the shifting beliefs and cultural practices of contemporary times. Solimar otero, director solimar otero is associate professor of english and a folklorist at louisiana state university. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world boydell and brewer. May 19, 2009 patrick manning refuses to divide the african diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. History of atlantic cultures and the african diaspora graduate reading list. African diaspora on the internet columbia university libraries. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the latinao and afro atlantic diasporas ebook written by solimar otero, toyin falola. Afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world explores how yoruba and afro cuban communities moved across the atlantic betw. Among the many merits of this book is the fact that greenbaum convincingly places the experience of. She is the author of afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world, university of rochester press, 20, 2010. Oct 21, 2016 solimar otero in her book afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world even quotes an elaborate and beautiful ifa verse from olusi. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the latinao and afro atlantic diasporas kindle edition by otero, solimar, falola, toyin. Similarly, bostonians, michiganians and californians moved across the us and the world.

Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world rochester. Afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world, by solimar otero, seeks to examine the transnational and bidirectional flow of culture and people between nigeria and cuba in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. History provides many examples of notable diasporas.

She is the author of afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world 2010 and coeditor of yemoja. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought africans and people of african descent into contact with one another and with europe, asia, and the americas. Read afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world by solimar otero available from rakuten kobo. The itan story talks about the historic relationship between the king and the diaspora, involving the forces of orisha like olokun. Solimar oteros afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world examines how constructions of home and belonging among the aguda in nigeria draw strongly on nostalgic rememberings of their latino heritage as cuban slaves as a resource for community reinvention. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the latinao and afro atlantic diasporas, coedited with toyin falola. The world famous major city, the us largest 89 million people, is known for its local subculture esp. Relations between africa, the americas and the caribbean.

Solimar otero is professor of folklore in the department of folklore and ethnomusicology at indiana university. This is a story about the campos and muniz families, afrocubans families. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world ebook by solimar. Rochester studies in african history and the diaspora, rochester, ny. Solimar otero, author of afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world, and coeditor of yemoja. Discover the most collected and trending afro cuban music. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world rochester studies in. In afro atlantic traditions, yemoja is associated with motherhood, women, the arts, and the family. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the latinao and afroatlantic diasporas ebook written by solimar otero, toyin falola. Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational relig.

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World dances across, beyond, and within the black atlantic diaspora with the. Buy this book afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world by solimar otero gr02 university of rochester press, 2010. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world by brown, laura. Solimar otero yoruba and afro cuban communities moved across the atlantic between the americas and africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. Lucumi is by far the most prestigious of the afrocuban religions, just as candomble nagi. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world solimar otero isbn. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, afro caribbean spirituality, and yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature, and ethnography. In havana, yoruba slaves from lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to nigeria. An ebook version of this title is available 9781580467056, to libraries through a.

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Solimar oteros afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world offers a rich transatlantic study that places the movements and religious practices of african and afrocubans at the center of scholarly and everyday understandings of diaspora. Rhythms of the afroatlantic world distinguishes itself as a collection focusing on. Compiled by columbia university libraries adiff 2018. Solimar otero s afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world surprises with the refreshing and updating information which it provides on a major period of the history of lagos, the transatlantic slave trade and the subsequent circumatlantic african diasporas. Africa and africans in the making of the atlantic world, 14001800. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, afrocaribbean spirituality, and yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature, and ethnography.

Toyin falola is frances higginbotham nalle centennial professor in history at the university of texas at austin. If not, heres the first of three posts highlighting some recent acquisitions in literature and literary studies available here at the scl. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world explores how yoruba and afro cuban communities. In consonance with this, the book also argues, is an undiminished longing for a return to africa, and so it was for the yoruba cubans and the. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the latinao and. Ive studied, taught, and written about the yoruba religion and its newworld counterpartssuch as lucumi in cuba and candomble nagi. Solimar oteros afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world offers a rich transatlantic study that places the movements and religious practices of african and afro cubans at the center of scholarly and everyday understandings of diaspora. Atlantic cultures and the african diaspora rutgers history. It argues that the domain of allegory in these works constitutes, at bottom, a contested site of paradoxes. Course reserves view and access items set aside by your instructor. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world rochester studies. Connect with afro cuban collectors across the globe and complete your collection.

Shutika will briefly talk about her forthcoming book. Historically, the word diaspora was used to refer to the involuntary mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, in particular the jews who were dispersed from the land of israel in antiquity. The comparative histories of slavery in brazil, cuba, and. There these cuban repatriates, known as the aguda, built their own neighborhood that celebrated their afrolatino heritage. Caribbean bookshelf januaryfebruary 2017 caribbean. Afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world by solimar otero isbn. Having for many years been an avid student of transatlantic slavery and in particular the diasporas which came in the wake of this historical event, this book was a revelation in terms of the new insight which it provides of the. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in latinao and afro atlantic diasporas suny press 20, which was selected as a finalist for the 2014 albert j.

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The map the european union peoples of the world includes some diasporas and underrepresentedstateless ethnic groups note. Much of the african diaspora became dispersed throughout the americas, europe, and asia during the atlantic and arab slave trades. Afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world rochester studies in african history and the diaspora book 45. Beginning in the 8th century, arabs took african slaves from the central and eastern portions of the african continent where they were known as the zanj and sold them into markets in the middle east, the indian subcontinent, and the far east. The book is written using a combination of anthropological, ethnographic, and historical analytical tools aimed at recovering the history and legacy of a group of africans and their. The discussion of these african, african american, and caribbean writers use of the allegorical mode is a serious attempt to recover the subtext of their works. African studies reading room columbia university libraries. Electric santeria is an exciting and timely addition to the series gender, theory, and religion. Afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world by solimar otero call number. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world book description. Thinking beyond national identity to include african, african american, afrocaribbean, and black british literature, difficult diasporas brings together an innovative archive of twentiethcentury texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures. Solimar otero yoruba and afrocuban communities moved across the atlantic between the americas and africa. Buy or rent afro cuban diasporas in the atlantic world. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world explores how yoruba and afrocuban communities.

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Jan 07, 2018 blackness is often only discussed in an american context, without an understanding of its social, political, economic, and cultural interconnections to the rest of the afroatlantic, europe, asia. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading yemoja. Rhythms of the afroatlantic world the university of michigan press. People the program in louisiana and caribbean studies. Afrocuban diasporas in the atlantic world book, 2010.