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Ingesting indenture: Lydia Cabrera, yellow blindness, Chinese bodies, and the generation of Afro-Chinese religious knowledge

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List of images

  • Lydia Cabrera sitting under a tree. Lydia Cabrera Papers Collection No. CHC0339 Series IV: Photographs, n.d., 1901–1991. Container Box No. 40. Folder No. 4. Title: Cabrera, Lydia: with Informants Folder Date: 1930–1950.
  • J. S. Baró, Lydia Cabrera’s Informant. Lydia Cabrera Papers Collection No. CHC0339 Series: IV. Photographs, n.d., 1901–1991. Container Box No. 40. Folder No. 23 Folder Title: Informants Folder Date: n.d.

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