An updated introduction to the religions developed in the Caribbean region Creole
Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the overlapping religions …

This article addresses the pervasiveness of white supremacy in American identity-thinking.
Challenging the use of identity to structure unity platforms in academia, I advocate for Black …

This article raises questions about how scholars of African American religions and of Black
Queer Studies have historically and historiographically rendered queer and transgender …

The contemporary retranslation and circulation of Lucumí songs for the orishas (deities)
among devotees and scholars in Cuba inadvertently reproduces both the sources and …

Abstract In 2015 Nagybe Madariaga Pouymiró, a professional percussionist and life-long
proponent for women's right to play the consecrated batá in Cuba, succeeded in crafting the …

This article historicizes the religious fervor of the 1969 Stonewall riots—multiple direct
actions against the anti-Black and homo-and transphobic NYPD and white-owned bars in …

This article examines the history of Cuban folkloric dance by following the footsteps of star
dancer Nieves Fresneda from 1959 to her retirement in 1979. Fresneda was a founding …

I'm incredibly grateful to the many people who helped me to get here, in ways large and
small, from Virginia to Philly to Havana and back again. First and foremost, thank you to my …

'Tambor'means drum in Spanish but in the Afro-Cuban religion called Regla de Ocha, the
word can also refer to the ritual batá drum, a set of three batá drums, a rhythm played on the …

A presente dissertação tem por objetivo estudar de forma comparada os romances
contemporâneos Compaixão (2009), da escritora estadunidense Toni Morrison, e Torto …