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Dancing the Afrofuture : Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy / Halifu Osumare.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osumare, Halifu, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance, Black--History--Biography.
- Dance, Black.
- Hula (Dance)--History--Biography.
- Hula (Dance).
- Hip-hop dance--History--Biography.
- Hip-hop dance.
- Osumare, Halifu.
- Dunham, Katherine--Influence.
- Dunham, Katherine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2024]
- Summary:
- In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on how her career as a dancer and activist influenced her growth as a scholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: From Dancing on the Stage to "Dancing" on the Page
- Dancing Out of the Bay Area
- Dancing in Hawai'i: Scholarship and Black Dance
- Dancing in Hawai'i: Performing Hula and A Hip-Hop Doctorate
- Dancing in Ohio and Nigeria
- "Dancing" in Sacramento and Davis
- Hip-Hoping Back to Ghana
- Becoming a Public Intellectual and Celebrating Blackness
- The Sankofa Process: Afrofuturism at Home and Abroad
- We Got Next! From The Afro-Present To The Afrofuture
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-7104-6
- 0-8130-7302-2
- 0-8130-7064-3
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