Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (03.15.16)
Join colleagues in African American Studies for a discussion on the book with the author, Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, Associate Professor of African American Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, and in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area, Beliso-De Jesús traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of Santería practitioners, mapping its emergence in transnational places and historical moments and its ritual negotiation of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and religious travel.
