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Week 2 Julissa Bedford

Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia (1966) was one of the most striking documentaries from Gomez’s work. The detailing of the women who raised her gave life to each family member and gave a glimpse into the Black Cuban life before the revolution and how Gomez in her present time viewed her family. As stated in the previous article on Gomez, she makes it known that she comes from an established middle class Black Cuban family. This sense of pride that Gomez feels in her accomplished female elders is demonstrated in the way she narrates about each significant maternal figure from her family. Significantly her godmother is where Sara focuses on the most in the duration of the documentary. In cultures that value family and religious ties I can tell that Sara takes pieces of her Cuban heritage and applies it throughout her films that often shows the crossover of identity outside of being solely Cuban and also interesting a specific identity into the ideas of the revolution.


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