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To: alt.religion.orisha From: catherine yronwodeSubject: Re: Whites in Early New Orleans Voodoo - Part 1 Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 18:20:15 GMT Mambo Racine Sans Bout wrote: > > I am not sure what the percentage of whites or blacks *in the United > States* involved in Afro-Caribbean diasporan religions might be. I > am not suggesting that whites dominate New Orleans Voodoo or Haitian > Vodou, but I am saying that there is a significant white presence, > which leads me to believe that there was likely a significant white > presence in New Orleans Voodoo in the late 1800's. In Harry Hyatt's research era -- the late 1930s -- there were significant numbers of white and mixed-race hoodoo rootworkers throughout the South, not just in New Orleans. There is some evidence, for instance, that the first Dr. Buzzard was white, although by Hyatt's time the name had become a sort of generic and there were many "little Dr. Buzzards" of both races throughout the Carolinas. cat yronwode Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html
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