Tag: vodou en vogue

Find Your Next Read on the UNC Press Presents Podcast

With recent episodes ranging from Haitian Vodou to Climate Change and natural disasters, you’ll be sure to learn something new or find your next read on the UNC Press Presents podcast. The podcast, produced in partnership with the New Books Network, features authors talking about their books & areas of expertise. In this post we’re highlighting a few of our most recent… Continue Reading Find Your Next Read on the UNC Press Presents Podcast

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August 14, 2023

The Gods Give Looks: An Excerpt from Vodou en Vogue

The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States by Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha which is available wherever books are sold. “Nwokocha’s superb work offers a much-needed corrective to previous scholarship that presents Vodou as a religion defined by poverty and precarity. Her skillful observations and thoughtful descriptions of… Continue Reading The Gods Give Looks: An Excerpt from Vodou en Vogue

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