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Lucumí (Yoruba) Culture In Cuba: A Reevaluation (1830s -1940s), Miguel Ramos
Lucumí (Yoruba) Culture In Cuba: A Reevaluation (1830s -1940s), Miguel Ramos
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The status, roles, and interactions of three dominant African ethnic groups and their descendants in Cuba significantly influenced the island’s cubanidad (national identity): the Lucumís (Yoruba), the Congos (Bantú speakers from Central West Africa), and the Carabalís (from the region of Calabar). These three groups, enslaved on the island, coexisted, each group confronting obstacles that threatened their way of life and cultural identities. Through covert resistance, cultural appropriation, and accommodation, all three, but especially the Lucumís, laid deep roots in the nineteenth century that came to fruition in the twentieth.
During the early 1900s, Cuba confronted numerous pressures, internal and …
Operation Pedro Pan In Fiu Library Collections, Rita M. Cauce
Operation Pedro Pan In Fiu Library Collections, Rita M. Cauce
Works of the FIU Libraries
This presentation was part of the FIU Libraries’ panel presentation, “FIU and the Cuban Diaspora: Collecting the Cuba of our Memory”.
Ninth Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, “Dispersed Peoples: The Cuban and Other Diasporas”, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, May 23-25, 2013.