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Author:

Hancock, Black Hawk, 1971-

Title:

American allegory : Lindy hop and the racial imagination / Black Hawk Hancock.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 265 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

African Americans--Chicago--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
Dance and race.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--History--20th century.
Blacks--History--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Whites--History--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Lindy (Dance)--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

022604310X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226043104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
022604307X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226043074 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)809911078

LCCN:

2012044800

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)