Afro-Cuban diasporas in the Atlantic world / Solimar Otero.
Otero, Solimar| Call Number | 305.896/33307291 |
| Author | Otero, Solimar, author. |
| Title | Afro-Cuban diasporas in the Atlantic world / Solimar Otero. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject | Yoruba (African people) Cuba History 19th century. 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. Nigeria Emigration and immigration History 19th century. Cuba Emigration and immigration History 19th century. |
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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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | 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. |
| Subject | Yoruba (African people) Cuba History 19th century. 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. Nigeria Emigration and immigration History 19th century. Cuba Emigration and immigration History 19th century. |
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