Saint Martin de Porres "The Black Saint of the Afro‐descendant community in Quito‐Ecuador": Between segregation, racism, and black resistance.
In the neighbourhood Caminos a la Libertad, located in the north‐western part of Quito, every November, a group of Afro‐Ecuadorian women called the Community of Saint Martin & The Martinas pay tribute to Saint Martin de Porres "the Black saint of the Afro‐descendant community." This celebration is r...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 92 - 103 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2024
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