- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations
- Summary
- This biography of American dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham draws upon a vast, never-utilized archival record to show how she was more than a dancer and anthropologist, but also an intellectual and activist.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Becoming a New Negro in Chicago -- Finding a Politics of Diaspora in the Caribbean -- Aesthetics as Politics -- Race and Representation During World War II -- Rehearsal for Revolution : the Dunham School -- The Unofficial Ambassador of Diaspora : performing abroad -- Living Diaspora in Haiti and Senegal -- The Radical Humanist Meets the Black Power Revolution : Dunham in East St. Louis -- Epilogue : Dunham's Legacy.
- ISBN
- 9780190264888
- 9780190264895
- LCCN
- OCLC
- Author
Das, Joanna Dee, author.
- Title
Katherine Dunham : dance and the African diaspora / Joanna Dee Das.
- Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of description
Online resource; title from home page (University Press Scholarship, viewed November 6, 2020).
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
Print version: Dee Das, Joanna. Katherine Dunham. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017 9780190264871 (DLC) 2016039505 (OCoLC)961408226
- Other Standard Identifier
40027280464
13233047
- Branch Call Number
eNYPL Book
