{"id":58471,"date":"2019-07-11T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58471"},"modified":"2019-07-12T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T17:35:19","slug":"afro-cuban-diasporas-in-the-atlantic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58471","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Boydell & Brewer<\/a>
\nJuly 2010
\n260 pages
\n12 black and white illustrations
\n9×6 in
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781580464734
\nHardback ISBN: 9781580463263
\neBook for Handhelds ISBN: 9781580468190
\neBook ISBN: 9781580467056<\/p>\n

Solimar Otero<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Folklore
\nIndiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/p>\n

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A study of the interchange between Cuba<\/a> and Africa<\/a> of Yoruban people<\/a> and culture during the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on the Aguda community.<\/em><\/p>\n

Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World<\/em> explores how Yoruba<\/a> and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic<\/a> between the Americas and Africa<\/a> in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana<\/a>, Yoruba slaves from Lagos<\/a> banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria<\/a>. Once in Lagos<\/a>, this Cuban repatriate community became known as the Aguda<\/a>. This community built their own neighborhood that celebrated their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic constructions of family and community play the role of narrating and locating a longed-for home. By providing a link between the workings of nostalgia and the construction of home, this volume re-theorizes cultural imaginaries as a source for diasporic community reinvention. Through ethnographic fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times. Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation.<\/p>\n

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