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Katherine Dunham : dance and the African diaspora

Title
Katherine Dunham : dance and the African diaspora / Joanna Dee Das.
Author
Das, Joanna Dee
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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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
  • Dunham, Katherine
  • Dancers > United States > Biography
  • Women dancers > United States > Biography
  • African American dancers > Biography
  • Anthropologists > United States > Biography
  • African American anthropologists > Biography
  • African American anthropologists
  • African American dancers
  • Anthropologists
  • Dancers
  • Women dancers
  • United States
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
  • 40027280464
  • 13233047
OCLC
  • 969543476
  • 969543476
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).
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Print version: Dee Das, Joanna. Katherine Dunham. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017 9780190264871 (DLC) 2016039505 (OCoLC)961408226
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40027280464
13233047
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