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Between 1937 and 1948, she published her second book of short stories Por Que...Cuentos negros de Cuba. For this collection, she participated in the culture of the Afro-Cubans and recorded their religious rituals and traditions. During the late 1950s she continued to publish several books about Afro-Cuban religions, especially focusing on the ...
The Cuban people and their customs are based on European, African and Amerindian influences. [1] Music ... Recognition, and Dissonance under Communism (Lexington ...
Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas wrote his own version of Villaverde's novel in his book Graveyard of the Angels (La loma del ángel). Cuban writer Daína Chaviano also offered a different and personal version of Villaverde's story in her novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead, 2008), where both protagonists and even the author himself appear ...
In her new book “Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America,” Eckstein argues that most Cubans could not legitimately claim to be refugees because even in the early years ...
Decades before Edel Rodriguez made his iconic, mouth-only political illustration of Donald Trump for the cover of Time magazine, he was a boy growing up in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. In his new ...
In these years it selectively supported various traditional Afro-Cuban customs and traditions and legalised certain Santería practices. These measures were partly linked to a desire to boost tourism, [57] with Santería-focused tourism being called santurismo. [58] Afro-Cuban floor shows became common in Cuban hotels. [52]
A book to be presented at Florida International University in Miami on Friday evening that advocates ending immigration benefits for what it calls “privileged” Cuban immigrants has sparked ...
[6] Daniel Ray of North American Congress on Latin America wrote "Her book is likely to become the definitive history of Cuba for this generation." [7] The book has also been reviewed by Felipe Fernández-Armesto of The Wall Street Journal, [1] Jeremy Ray Jewell of The Arts Fuse, [8] Esther Allen of the Los Angeles Review of Books [9] and ...