Vodú Chic: Cuba's Haitian Heritage, the Folkloric Imaginary, and the State

Hundreds of thousands of Haitian agricultural laborers arrived in Cuba to cut cane as the Cuban sugar industry was expanding between the 1910s and the 1930s, and many settled permanently on the island. Historically, Haitian laborers occupied the lowest strata in Cuban society. Until relatively recen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Viddal, Grete Tove
Other Authors: Monson, Ingrid T.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11315
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274510