Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition B de Bolsillo and schools

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black women advocating for internationalism through art and performance

including: Tupac Shakur

Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition B de Bolsillo and schoolsThis volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic based celebrations calls into question the long held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity or