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Article: What's in a name?(RANT & RAVE)(black dance)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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... And while we are on the subject of Black History Month, there is something I would like to get off my chest. We are well into the first decade of the new millennium; the Internet has effectively shrunk the world to the size of a marble by placing information at the fingertips, and as a nation we are closer than ever to having a woman or an African American as president. Yet we are still practicing segregated cultural recognition. Sub rosa the racist ideology of the "majority and the other" is alive and active. Ubiquitous in all facets of American culture, in the dance world it surfaces in the irksome label "black dance"--the sound alone makes my teeth itch. I feel ...
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