Cachita's Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba

Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol...
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Author: Jalane D. Schmidt
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Cachita's Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba by Schmidt, Jalane D.

Cachita's Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba

$93.26

Cachita's Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba

$93.26
Author: Jalane D. Schmidt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals, journalists and artists, practitioners of spiritism and Santer a, activists, politicians, and revolutionaries each have constructed and disputed the meanings of the Virgin. Schmidt examines the occasions from 1936 to 2012 when the Virgin's beloved, original brown-skinned effigy was removed from her national shrine in the majority black- and mixed-race mountaintop village of El Cobre and brought into Cuba's cities. There, devotees venerated and followed Cachita's image through urban streets, amassing at large-scale public ceremonies in her honor that promoted competing claims about Cuban religion, race, and political ideology. Schmidt compares these religious rituals to other contemporaneous Cuban street events, including carnival, protests, and revolutionary rallies, where organizers stage performances of contested definitions of Cubanness. Schmidt provides a comprehensive treatment of Cuban religions, history, and culture, interpreted through the prism of Cachita.

Author: Jalane D. Schmidt
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/28/2015
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.06w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780822359371


Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2016

About the Author
Jalane D. Schmidt is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

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