Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity Compulsive Behavior and middle-class blacks made sense

and middle-class blacks made sense of their lives and articulated a political vision for their futures

they shared the day-to-day joys and struggles of leading the most powerful nation on earth

Her target was women 3/4 straight or married

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Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity Compulsive Behavior and middle-class blacks made senseLydia Cabrera (1900 1991), an upper class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother in law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of Afro Cubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna Rodriguez Mangual challenges this perspective, proposing