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'Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World' explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became known as the Aguda. 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. Solimar Otero is assistant professor of English and folklore at Louisiana State University and is research associate and visiting professor at the Women's Studies in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School from 2009-2010.

#SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Cubans --- African diaspora --- Return migration --- Yoruba (African people) --- Yariba (African people) --- Yooba (African people) --- Yorubas --- Ethnology --- Migration, Return --- Emigration and immigration --- Repatriation --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- History --- Ethnic identity --- Migrations --- Cuba --- Nigeria --- Nigeria (Federation) --- Federation of Nigeria --- Nigerija --- Federal Republic of Nigeria --- Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria --- Republic of Nigeria --- Federal Military Government (Nigeria) --- Nai-chi-li-ya --- Nigerii︠a︡ --- Bundesrepublik Nigeria --- Jamhuriyar Taraiyar Nijeriya --- Ọ̀hàńjíkọ̀ Ọ̀hànézè Naìjíríyà --- Orílẹ̀-èdè Olómìniira Àpapọ̀ Nàìjíríà --- ナイジェリア --- Naijeria --- ניגריה --- Nigeryah --- Küba --- Guba --- Kkuba --- Republic of Cuba --- República de Cuba --- キューバ --- Kyūba --- Kuuba --- African diaspora. --- Transatlantic slave trade --- Ethnic identity. --- Afro-Cuban Diasporas. --- Aguda Community. --- Cuban Repatriate Community. --- Nineteenth Century. --- Solimar Otero. --- Transnational Atlantic Community. --- Yoruban Culture. --- Yoruban People.

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Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

African diaspora in art. --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Cultural fusion and the arts. --- Goddesses in art. --- Mother goddesses. --- Orishas in art. --- Sex in art. --- Yemaja (Yoruba deity) --- LaSiren (Yoruba deity) --- Lemanjá (Yoruba deity) --- Yemayá (Yoruba deity) --- Yemoja (Yoruba deity) --- Gods, Yoruba --- Mother goddesses --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art --- Orixás in art --- Goddesses --- Arts and cultural fusion --- Hybridity (Social sciences) and the arts --- Arts --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Cults --- Afro-Caribbean religions.

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"First-person accounts that show the expanding demographics of African-descended religions In this focused portrayal of global dispersal and spiritual sojourning, Martin Tsang draws together first-person accounts of the evolving Afro-Atlantic religious landscape. Spirited Diasporas offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban LukumiÌ, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian CandombleÌ, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions. In these accounts, practitioners from many origins illustrate the work and commitment they undertook to learn and become initiated in these traditions. They reveal in the process a variety of experiences that are not often documented. Their perspectives also show the expanding contemporary demographics of African-descended religions, many of whose members identify as LGBTQ or are part of other minoritized populations, and they counter inaccurate and often racialized portrayals of these religions as being anti-modern and geographically limited. Through the voices of the professionals, scholars, and activists gathered here, readers will appreciate the purpose and belonging to be found in the far-reaching communities of these Latin American and Caribbean spiritualities. As the seekers in these stories discover and come home to their new religious families, Spirited Diasporas displays the relevance and generative power of these traditions."-- "Through a variety of first-person accounts, this book offers a glimpse into the frequently misunderstood religions of Afro-Cuban LukumiÌ, Haitian Vodou, and Brazilian CandombleÌ, adding to the growing research on the transnational yet personal nature of African diasporic religions"--

Black people --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- History. --- Atlantic Ocean Region --- Religion --- Afro-Caribbean religions