Afro-Cuban diasporas in the Atlantic world

Afro-Cuban diasporas in the Atlantic world

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Statement of responsibility:Solimar Otero
Main Author: Otero, Solimar (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2010
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:9781580467056 (: ebook)
Subjects (GND):
Kuba ;
Nigeria ;
Yoruba ;
Migration ;
Diaspora
Subjects (LCSH):
Yoruba (African people) > Cuba > Ethnic identity
Yoruba (African people) > Cuba > Migrations > History > 19th century
Cubans > Nigeria > Lagos > History > 19th century
Return migration > Nigeria > Lagos > History > 19th century
African diaspora
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Summary:'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
Grassroots Africans : Havana's "Lagosians" -- Returning to Lagos : making the Oja home -- "Second diasporas" : reception in the Bight of Benin -- Situating Lagosian, Caribbean, and Latin American diasporas -- Creating Afrocubanos : public cultures in a circum-Atlantic perspective -- Conclusion: flow, community, and diaspora -- Appendix: case studies of returnees to Lagos from Havana, Cuba
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