Writing Rumba: The Afro-Cubanista Movement in Poetry

Writing Rumba: The Afro-Cubanista Movement in PoetryArising 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.

A decade later

Gordon cuts through the mist of white narcissism and the versions of consciousness it perpetuates

With sex as her weapon of choice

so kids can feel inspired to get involved in their own communities

¡todo apunta hacia los tres hermanos

a lack of job training

Rachel Haidu

Knight (Johns Hopkins University)

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