Afrocubanas - History, Thought, and Cultural Practices

List of contents

Part One: History
Lawsuits by Slave Women in Nineteenth Century Cuba / Digna Castañeda Fuertes
Reconstructing Ex-slave Belén Álvarez's Story / Oilda Hevia Lanier
Women of Color in Santiaguera Colonial Society, A Commentary / María Cristina Hierrezuelo

Part Two: Thought
Women of Minerva / María del Carmen Barcia Zequeira
Gratitude: To My Friends and Colleagues of the Journal Minerva / Úrsula Coimbra de Valverde
Black Voices in Favor of the Independent Party of Color / Carmen Piedra
Our Ethnic Values / Consuelo Serra
What We Are / Inocencía Silveira
The Black Cuban Woman / Gerardo del Valle
Black Cuban Women and Culture / Catalina Pozo Gato
Black Intelligence / Arabella Òña
Women in Santeria or Regla Ocha: Gender, Myths and Reality / Daisy Rubiera Castillo
Gender and Raciality: An Obligatory Reflection in Contemporary Cuba / Yulexis Almeida Junco
On Afro-Cuban Women Stereotypes: Construction and Deconstruction of Myths / María Ileana Faguaga Iglesias
Proposing an Inclusive and Non-sexist Gaz

About the author

Devyn Spence Benson is an Associate Professor of Africana and Latin American Studies and the Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Davidson College. She is the author of Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). Dr. Karina Alma is an Assistant Professor in the Chicana/o Studies department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She coedited the anthology, U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles and Communities of Resistance (Arizona University Press, 2017).Mika’il Petin is assistant vice president of student success at Motlow State Community College.

Product details

• Assisted by: Devyn Spence Benson (Editor), Benson Devyn Spence (Editor), Castillo Daisy Rubiera (Editor), Inés María Martiatu Terry (Editor), Daisy Rubiera Castillo (Editor), Inés María Martiatu Terry (Editor), Karina Alma (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2020
• EAN: 9781786614810
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-481-0
• No. of pages: 398
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 230 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 776 g
• Illustrations: 4 tables
• Series: Creolizing the Canon
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Latin America, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, Caribbean islands, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Latin America - Mexico, Central America, South America