Casal, Lourdes
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Name (Latin)
Casal, Lourdes
Other forms of name
Casal y Valdés, Lourdes Emilia de la Caridad
Date of birth
1938-04-05
Date of death
1981-02-01
Associated country
Cuba
United States
Field of activity
Social psychology
civil rights movements cuba
Occupation
Authors
College teachers
Political activists
Associated Language
spa
Gender
female
Sources of Information
- Author's El caso Padilla, 1971:title page (Lourdes Casal)
- Black women and liberation movements, 1981:page 69 (Black Women in the Liberation Struggle of Cuba / by Lourdes Casal) page 146 (Lourdes Casal, 42 years old, died February 1, 1981. She was one of the first post-revolutionary expatriates to return to her country in 1973. Casal was also among the individuals who initiated and promoted a dialog between Cuban emigrants and the Cuban government during the winter of 1978. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the New School for Social Research in 1975. Having taught at Rutgers, Hofstra, Princeton and the University of Illinois, Casal was selected as a Latin American Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution during the 1978-1979 academic year. Among Casal's publications are the Cuban minority in the U.S., and Contra viento y marea (Against all odds).)
- preferred forms: Casal, Lourdes; Casal, Lourdes, 1938-1981; Lourdes Casal ( (VIAF, viewed January 26, 2023) )
- Lourdes Casal; Lourdes Emilia de la Caridad Casal y Valdés; born and died in Havana, Cuba; occupation: writer/social activist; first Cuban American to receive the Casa de las Américas Prize, posthumously in 1981 ( (Wikipedia, viewed January 26, 2023) )
- Author's El caso Padilla, 1971.
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 4/5/38)