American allegory : Lindy hop and the racial imagination /

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"Perhaps," wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power." As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms are larger and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hancock, Black Hawk, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 20th century.
Dance and race.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Black people > Race identity > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
White people > Race identity > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Lindy (Dance) > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Illinois > Chicago > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Danse et race.
Lindy Hop (Danse) > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Social conditions
Black people > Race identity
Dance and race
Lindy (Dance)
White people > Race identity
Schwarze
Weiße
Ethnische Identität
Lindy
Illinois > Chicago
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: this strange dance
  • Finding the pocket
  • Caught in the act of appropriation
  • Put a little color on that!
  • Steppin' out of whiteness
  • Conclusion: toward a new racial politics
  • References
  • Notes.

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