Roberto González Echevarría
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Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures, Yale University.
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Fernando Ortiz was an anthropologist, essayist, and philologist who pioneered in the study of neo-African cultures in the Americas, particularly in Cuba. Ortiz began his career as a lawyer and criminologist (he was among the first to advocate the use of fingerprinting in police work). His study of…
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