{"id":43475,"date":"2015-10-25T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T21:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43475"},"modified":"2016-03-25T20:52:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:52:41","slug":"black-magic-woman-and-narrative-film-race-sex-and-afro-religiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43475","title":{"rendered":"Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Palgrave Macmillan<\/a>
\nJuly 2015
\n216 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781137454171
\nEbook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137454195
\nEbook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137454188<\/p>\n

Montr\u00e9 Aza Missouri<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor in Film
\nHoward University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Contributing to emerging scholarship on representations of race, gender, sexuality and religion in film and media, Black Magic Woman<\/em> focuses on the ‘tragic mulatto<\/a>‘ stereotype that is conventionally portrayed as a character tormented by issues of racial and cultural ambiguity. Montr\u00e9 Aza Missouri explores the journey of the ‘mulatto<\/a>‘ from ‘tragic’ to ’empowered’ through the character’s adherence to Yoruba-Atlantic<\/a> religions such as Cuban Lucum\u00ed<\/a>, Puerto Rican Santer\u00eda<\/a> and American Voodoo<\/a>. From this religious transformation, the ‘tragic mulatto’ becomes the Black Magic Woman, a signifier of a New World cultural identity.<\/p>\n

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