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Katherine Dunham : dance and the African diaspora / Joanna Dee Das.
Van Pelt Library GV1785.D82 D44 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Das, Joanna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunham, Katherine.
- Dancers--United States--Biography.
- Dancers.
- African American anthropologists.
- African American dancers.
- Women dancers.
- United States.
- Women dancers--United States--Biography.
- African American dancers--Biography.
- Anthropologists--United States--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- African American anthropologists--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 276 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Becoming a New Negro
- Chapter 2: Finding a Politics of Diaspora in the Caribbean
- Chapter 3: Aesthetics as Politics
- Chapter 4: Race and Representation During World War II
- Chapter 5: Rehearsal for Revolution at the Dunham School
- Chapter 6: The Unofficial Ambassador of Diaspora
- Chapter 7: Living Diaspora in Haiti and Senegal
- Chapter 8: The Radical Humanist Meets the Black Power Revolution in East St. Louis
- Epilogue: Dunham's Legacy
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190264871
- 019026487X
- OCLC:
- 961408226
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