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- Title
Work that: Kamala Harris, resistance, and the black dancing body.
- Authors
Stow, Simon
- Abstract
This essay seeks to identify ways in which the dancing by Kamala Harris, then U.S. Senator the Democrats' nominee for vice president in 2020, might be considered a political form of resistance and the implications of this politics. Topics discussed are dancing biography of Harris, ways in which African American dance has been discounted by White America, misunderstanding by White audiences of the African American female dancing body, and dance as a resistive form of pushing onward.
- Subjects
HARRIS, Kamala, 1964-; AFRICAN American dance; RESISTANCE to government; AFRICAN American women; WHITE people; POLITICAL science; AFRICAN American women legislators
- Publication
Journal of American Culture, 2023, Vol 46, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
1542-7331
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jacc.13454