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Cachita's streets : the Virgin of Charity, race, and revolution in Cuba / Jalane D. Schmidt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidt, Jalane D., 1968-
- Series:
- Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
- The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Cuba.
- Mary.
- Caridad del Cobre, Virgen de la.
- Revolutions--Cuba--History.
- Revolutions.
- Cuba--Race relations.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jalane D. Schmidt shows how the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, discovered in 1612 and known as Cachita, is a potent and contested symbol of Cuban national identity. She analyzes the five times over the last eighty years Cachita has been celebrated in Cuba's urban streets.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "Antes": processions past
- From foundling to intercessor: Our Lady help of slaves
- Mambisa virgin: patrona of the patria
- Royalty in exile: banishing Bembes
- Crowning Caridad: the queen of republican Cuba
- The virgin general on the march: conquering Cuba?
- Rebel sierras and lowlands: petitioning the mother of Cuba
- "Todos a la plaza!": mobilizing in revolutionary time and space
- "The streets are for revolutionaries!": prohibiting processions
- Luchando in the special period: papal visit
- Conclusion: processions present: returning to the streets, 1998-2012.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375319
- 0822375311
- OCLC:
- 915138176
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