Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822325932ISBN-10:822325934UPC:9780822325932Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Women, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Minority StudiesSize:8.30 x 5.62 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SC0KGVWEJ8
Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century
Mar?a de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902-1997), a black woman known as "Reyita," recounts her life in Cuba over the span of ninety years. Reyita's voice is at once dignified, warm, defiant, strong, poetic, principled, and intelligent. Her story-as told to and recorded by her daughter Daisy Castillo-begins in Africa with her own grandmother's abduction by slave-traders and continues through a...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822325932ISBN-10:822325934UPC:9780822325932Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Women, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Minority StudiesSize:8.30 x 5.62 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SC0KGVWEJ8
María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (1902-1997) was a mother, laborer, and activist living in Cuba during the twentieth century.
Daisy Rubiera Castillo, the author's daughter, is founder of the Fernando Ortiz African Cultural Centre in Santiago de Cuba. In addition to the Spanish edition of Reyita, published in 1997, she is the author of Black Women in Cuba: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth...
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