Folklore, Afro-Cuban Religions and Racism in Santiago de Cuba.

The text about to develop a reflection on the intersections between formal cultural policies and afro-religious practices from an academic-cultural festival in the city of Santiago de Cuba. With investments in folk ensembles, following the triumph of the 1959 Revolution, many people saw their Africa...

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Autor: Oliveira, Bianca Ferreira
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/27337
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/repam/article/view/27337
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Folclore. Racismo. Religiões afro-cubanas. CUba
Folklore. Racism. Cuba. Afro-Cuban religions.
Folclore. Racismo. Cuba. Religiones afrocubanas.
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Sumario:The text about to develop a reflection on the intersections between formal cultural policies and afro-religious practices from an academic-cultural festival in the city of Santiago de Cuba. With investments in folk ensembles, following the triumph of the 1959 Revolution, many people saw their African-based religious practices taking spaces once denied to them. However, the measures taken by the revolutionary government, based on the idea that all social inequalities were the result of a capitalist bourgeois ideology, were not enough to end racial discrimination on the Island. Starting from two important events in the city of Santiago de Cuba, the Festival del Caribe and Carnival, I seek to raise some questions about the contexts surrounding events legitimized or not by the state.