Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry Health & Daily Living Taylor blends archival and ethnographic

Taylor blends archival and ethnographic research

and Ben Vinson III arrange the volume around three themes: identity construction in the Americas

and from the Trail of Tears to the Pacific Northwest

What happened to marital bliss

those who are taking their first steps back to natural and those who have already gone all in

Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry Health & Daily Living Taylor blends archival and ethnographicArising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through poetry, this movement was the first serious attempt on the part of mostly white Cuban intellectuals to produce a national literature that incorporated elements from the Afro Cuban traditions of lower class urban blacks.