Cristina Rodríguez Cabral
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Cristina Rodríguez Cabral (born 26 May 1959) is an Uruguayan poet, researcher, and
Afro-Uruguayan Afro-Uruguayans (), also known as Black Uruguayans (), are Uruguayans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. Afro-Uruguayans are generally considered the second-largest ethnic group in the country, although ...
activist.


Biography

Rodríguez has a degree in sociology and
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, a profession that she practiced for some time in
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. She continued her academic training at the
University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...
, where she obtained her PhD. She currently resides in the United States of America, where she works as a researcher and university professor. Rodríguez took an interest in literature at 11 years of age. Her first publications were published by the organization Mundo Afro, which campaigned for the equal rights of
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in Uruguayan. In 1986, her work ''Bahía, mágica Bahía'' won the
Casa de las Américas Prize The Casa de las Américas Prize (''Premio Literario Casa de las Américas'') is a literary award given by the Cuban Casa de las Américas. Established in 1959, it is one of Latin America’s oldest and most prestigious literary prizes. The award ...
. Currently, Rodríguez Cabral is an international reference in Afro-Uruguayan literature, and one of the few living afro-descendant writers to whom academic studies have been dedicated. In general, Rodríguez's work deals with marginalization and oppression on the grounds of race and gender. There is, in her works, "a need to remember and reaffirm the inherited values of both our family and Africa." Her initial works are focused on her feelings and intimate experiences from the perspective of a black Hispanic-American woman. In her post-1995 works, she introduces themes related to social militancy, racism and cultural identity.


Citations

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