Defending Rumba in Havana
The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons
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2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3133-8 (ISBN)
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Anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines the popular Black working-class dance rumba as a way of knowing to account for the embodied spiritual dimensions of Black political imagination in contemporary Cuba.
In 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 theorization builds upon the notion of the undercommons to show how rumba creates a space in which its practitioners enact deeply felt and dedicatedly defended choreographies of reciprocity, refusal, sovereignty, devotion, and pleasure, both on stage and in their daily lives. Berry demonstrates that this Black corporeal undercommons emphasizes mutual aid and refuses neoliberal development logics in favor of a collective self-determination rooted in African diasporic spiritual practices through which material compensation and gendered power dynamics are negotiated. By centering rumba to analyze how poor Black Cubans navigate gendered and racialized life, Berry helps readers better understand the constraints and yearnings moving diasporic Black struggles to seek refuge beyond the bounds of the nation-state.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award
In 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 theorization builds upon the notion of the undercommons to show how rumba creates a space in which its practitioners enact deeply felt and dedicatedly defended choreographies of reciprocity, refusal, sovereignty, devotion, and pleasure, both on stage and in their daily lives. Berry demonstrates that this Black corporeal undercommons emphasizes mutual aid and refuses neoliberal development logics in favor of a collective self-determination rooted in African diasporic spiritual practices through which material compensation and gendered power dynamics are negotiated. By centering rumba to analyze how poor Black Cubans navigate gendered and racialized life, Berry helps readers better understand the constraints and yearnings moving diasporic Black struggles to seek refuge beyond the bounds of the nation-state.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award
Maya J. Berry is Assistant Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
1. Black Inclusion, Black Enclosure 47
2. Black Feminist Aptitudes 88
3. Sacred Swagger and Its Social Order 129
4. Moving Labor across Markets 169
5. Underworld Assembly 219
Conclusion 249
Epilogue 259
Notes 267
References 281
Index 297
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.1.2025 |
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Zusatzinfo | 22 illustrations |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 445 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4780-3133-6 / 1478031336 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-3133-8 / 9781478031338 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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