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Afro-Cuban diasporas in the Atlantic world

Author: Solimar Otero
Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, v. 45.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A study of the interchange between Cuba and Africa of Yoruban people and culture during the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on the Aguda community.

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Solimar Otero
ISBN: 9781580463263 1580463266 1580463304 9781580463300
OCLC Number: 299710317
Description: x, 247 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, v. 45.
Responsibility: Solimar Otero.
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