TY - BOOK AU - Das,Joanna Dee TI - Katherine Dunham: dance and the African diaspora SN - 9780190264871 (hardback) AV - GV1785.D82 D44 2017 U1 - 792.8092B 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Dunham, Katherine. KW - Dancers KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Women dancers KW - African American dancers KW - Anthropologists KW - African American anthropologists KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts KW - bisacsh KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern N1 - Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Becoming a New Negro -- Chapter 2: Finding a Politics of Diaspora in the Caribbean -- Chapter 3: Aesthetics as Politics -- Chapter 4: Race and Representation During World War II -- Chapter 5: Rehearsal for Revolution at the Dunham School -- Chapter 6: The Unofficial Ambassador of Diaspora -- Chapter 7: Living Diaspora in Haiti and Senegal -- Chapter 8: The Radical Humanist Meets the Black Power Revolution in East St. Louis -- Epilogue: Dunham's Legacy -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index ER -