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Situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Focusing on new forms of appropriation in an era of multiculturalism, the author underscores the institutionalization of racial disparities and offers insights into the intersection of race and culture in America.

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"In American Allegory, Black Hawk Hancock has written a rich and intricately detailed ethnography of the distinct worlds of lindy hop and steppin'. Here, readers are offered a guide to the ways in which cultural expressions have come to occupy separate racial and spatial realms and how this apparent segregation of race, culture, and identity is practiced in the United States today." (Andrew Deener, author of Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles)"

American Allegory

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 27/05/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226043104, 978-0226043104
      ISBN10: 022604310X
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      Dance Cultural studies

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      Book Synopsis
      Situates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Focusing on new forms of appropriation in an era of multiculturalism, the author underscores the institutionalization of racial disparities and offers insights into the intersection of race and culture in America.

      Trade Review
      "In American Allegory, Black Hawk Hancock has written a rich and intricately detailed ethnography of the distinct worlds of lindy hop and steppin'. Here, readers are offered a guide to the ways in which cultural expressions have come to occupy separate racial and spatial realms and how this apparent segregation of race, culture, and identity is practiced in the United States today." (Andrew Deener, author of Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles)"

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