Remaking the Slave Past in the Present: Representations of Afro-Peruvian Men in the Church of Cristo Kyrios

• Author / Creator

  Carroll, Natacha Margarita

• This thesis explores the representations of Blackness constructed and embraced by Saadakeem Papa Kyriakos, the prophet and leader of the Church of Cristo Kyrios, a marginal organization located in Lima, Peru. Saadakeem proudly claims to adhere to the religion practiced by plantation slaves in Peru in the sixteenth century. This thesis presents and analyzes some of Saadakeem’s divine messages about slavery as well as the images of Black men he creates, adopts and employs to symbolize the sacred Black figures the Church worships. This thesis contends that Saadakeem’s representations of Blackness not only exclude women, but also reinforce deeply entrenched racial conceptualizations that depict Black men as mindless, primitive and sexual bodies.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Racial
  • Representations
  • Afro-Peruvian

• Graduation date

  Fall 2012

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Arts

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3Z691

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.