Defending Rumba in Havana Andromache Karanika New to the fifth edition

New to the fifth edition are updates to the author's Tasks and Mediators of Mourning

In The Years of Blood

are rooted in the disparities and malfunctioning of the Soviet regime

this contemplative work helps us see art and physics as artists and physicists do

Defending Rumba in Havana Andromache Karanika New to the fifth editionIn Defending Rumba in Havana, anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied and spiritual dimensions of Black political imagination in post Fidel Cuba. Historically a Black working class popular dance, rumba, Berry contends, is a method of Black Cuban struggle that provides the community, accountability, sustenance, and dignity that neither the state nor the expanding private market can. Berry's feminist