(subtitle: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era)

I looked for this after reading The Black Dancing Body, since I do lindy and wanted to know more about the history of lindy hop, particularly how cultural appropriation, cultural theft and racial politics play into it ( Read more... )

The academic geek in me loves that the introduction of the book starts out with terms and definitions; Dixon Gottschild notes that she very deliberately uses the word “coon” to make a racial point. She further explains why she uses “thick,” “full,” and “natural” instead of “fuzzy,” “kinky,” or “nappy,” defines her use of “Africanist” as describing ( Read more... )