Cachita's Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
(Part of the Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series and Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series)
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Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals, journalists and artists, practitioners of spiritism and Santería, activists, politicians, and revolutionaries each have constructed and disputed...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822359375
ISBN13:9780822359371
Release Date:August 2015
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:376 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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