Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity

Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural IdentityLydia Cabrera (1900 1991), an upper class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother in law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of Afro Cubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna Rodriguez Mangual challenges this perspective, proposing

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This historic choral ensemble was sponsored by the American Missionary Association (AMA)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ So Sophisticated Publications (April 1

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948373157

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