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Author Roberts, Rosemarie A., author

Title Baring unbearable sensualities : hip hop dance, bodies, race, and power / Rosemarie A. Roberts
Published Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 182 pages)
Contents 1. Conceptions of bodies and embodiments in dance -- 2. Ocularcentrism and social ghosts -- 3. The excess of allusion -- 4. If Descartes danced -- 5. Sharing unbearable sensualities in mixed company, or the art of critical engagement
Summary "Hip hop dance transmission embodies historical and contemporary oppression and resistance, as dancing Black and Brown bodies bear the responsibility of negotiating social, economic and political conditions and ultimately assert and challenge power through performance"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 8, 2021)
Subject African Americans -- Social life and customs.
African American dance.
Hip-hop dance -- Political aspects
Hip-hop dance -- Social aspects
African Americans -- Social life and customs
African American dance
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780819500069
0819500062