Negro: el color de una raza alienada

Abstract

The term Magic has been commonly misunderstood as only a set of superstitious obscure beliefs, characteristic of an "inferior race", namely the black race. But what is worse, Black and White magic have been identified with evil and good practices respectively, performed exclusively in remote places like Haiti and Jamaica. This paper examines the original sense of the word, that of an ancestral tradition inherited from the past of which black people have been stripped, as well as the network of connections between its forms in the Caribbees and those in the Canary Islands.