Ofrenda: para las ancestras

Ofrenda para las ancestras is a poetic ritual reconciling the crossroads of identities that compose Edwaujontes bloodline -- African Indigenous and European. what is the price of discovering your roots? is it the $79 cheek swab? plantation tours of the floors your family scrubbed? a walk through hedges fertilized with your DNA?This offering explores the price of discovering ones heritage as a child of the Afro-Indigenous Diaspora set against the composite backdrops of genealogy mixed heritage gentrification internalized oppression systemic racism and spiritual awakening. The text spans the African diaspora: from West Africa to Brooklyn Long Island Virginia North Carolina and Barbados. Edwaujontes poetics unravel colonized language and culture to remind the orphans of enslavement and genocide that the human spirit is unconquerable. It is a journey of healing expressed through prayer blues poetry ethnography resistance Orisha worship and ancestral reverence.