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Jul 28, 2021 · Santa Cruz is perhaps the first Black intellectual to include in his work an agenda for social justice. From the late 1950s to 1992, the poet, playwright, and folklorist published essays, short ...
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Sep 29, 2011 · On February 5, 1992, Nicomedes Santa Cruz died at the age of 66. The most important black intellectual in twentieth-century Peru died away from home. His work and legacy, despite some important recent efforts, remain unknown for most Peruvians. A man of commitment and courage, of immense talent and creativity, of sincere dedication to the cause ...
Santa Cruz was born in La Victoria District, Lima, Peru, to Nicomedes Santa Cruz Aparicio and Victoria Gamarra Ramírez, and was the ninth of ten siblings.After his schooling, it was decided that he would work as a blacksmith, which he did until 1956 when he left his workshop and traveled throughout Peru and Latin America, composing and reciting his poems.
Nicomedes Santa Cruz (1925-1992) is notably one of the most important Afro-Peruvian. poets of the twentieth century. He is the best representative of negritude in Peru by being the. first poet in treating blackness from an Afro-centric perspective highlighting the important. and unmistakable participation of the Afro-Peruvian in the shaping of ...
It’s from within the décima tradition that Santa Cruz would stage the recovery of AfroPeruvian roots beginning in the mid-1950s. Santa Cruz’s work coincides with renewed debates on the nature of Peruvian identity and culture as a result of rural migration to the capital city and working-class activism.
Jun 20, 2019 · Nicomedes Santa Cruz (1925-1992) Born in Lima in 1925, Nicomedes Santa Cruz, a factory worker at the time, became a decimista after meeting Don Porfirio Vázquez, that great patriarch of black folklore, in 1945. No longer in force in Spain, the décima ’s internal rhythm and links to music and performance operated as an oral mnemonic ...
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Negritude as a Mission. For Santa Cruz, Negritude in Peru was a mission to continue historical struggles against the remnants of colonial systems of ethnic oppression and against current capitalist exploitation. The proclamation of political independence from Spain (1821) promised the freedom, equality and solidarity for all Peruvian people.
