Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry Health & Daily Living This latest edition in Triangle

This latest edition in Triangle Square's For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America

a case study of some of those who returned to Africa and had to build a new identity based on their experiences as slaves

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

Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry Health & Daily Living This latest edition in TriangleArising 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.