Wed Nov 17 06:37:57 2010 UTClccn-no00-1040710.670.711.00no 00104071oca05383740aMcAlister, Elizabeth A.lccn-n2003-55782Goldschmidt, Henryedtlccn-no2007-88509ebrary, Inclccn-n80-126136Oxford University Presslccn-no96-25992Averill, Gagelccn-n95-103566Fleurant, Gerdèslccn-no2008-69136Ebooks Corporationnp-jean louis, kethelyneJean-Louis, KethelyneMcAlister, Elizabeth A.McAlister, Elizabeth A.100HaitiansBlack theologyPopular musicNew York (State)--New YorkRace--Religious aspectsManners and customsSocial historyReligionHistoryIndians--ReligionJewsAfrican Americans--ReligionBlacks--ReligionAmericaRace relationsFolk songs, CreoleFolk musicVoodoo musicCriticism, interpretation, etc.Haiti19901992199520022004200626982981645book394.26596897294ml3565ocn493445393ocn49201189872409129868ocn052998937sw047863158:lccn-no00-104071Falsebook20020.69McAlister, Elizabeth A

Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions.

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The ... essays collected in this volume bring critical new perspectives to the interdisciplinary study of racial, national, and religious identities. The authors demonstrate that one cannot study these categories of identity formation in isolation, but must instead examine the ways each intersects with-and ultimately helps construct-the others. This innovative theoretical perspective sheds new light on the role of religion in shaping the lives of diverse communities throughout the Americas and forces us to reevaluate the reductive opposition between secular and religious identities. The twelve essays in the volume explore the ties between race, nation, and religion in ethnographic and historical detail. Topics range from Jesuit mission work to Hollywood film, manifest destiny to liberation theology, the Haitian Rara festival to American immigration law. In these and other contexts, the authors explore the intertwined histories of a hemisphere defined at the charged intersections of race, nation, and religion. -Publisher description.

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