Cachita's Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in CubaCuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals, journalists and artists, practitioners of spiritism and Santer a, activists, politicians, and revolutionaries each have constructed and disputed