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

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	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.
Summary	"Perhaps," wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power." As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms are larger and more important than they appear, taking on great significance and an unexpected depth of meaning. What he saw in the power of the Lindy Hop-the dance that Life magazine once billed as "America's True National Folk Dance"--Would spread from black America to make a lasting impression on white America and offer
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Subject	African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	African Americans.
	Illinois -- Chicago.
	Social conditions.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Dance and race.
	Dance and race.
	Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Black people -- Race identity -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
	Black people -- Race identity.
	White people -- Race identity -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
	White people -- Race identity.
	Lindy (Dance) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
	History.
	Lindy (Dance)
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	White people -- Race identity.
	Schwarze.
	Weiße.
	Ethnische Identität.
	Lindy.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Hancock, Black Hawk, 1971- American allegory. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 9780226043074 (DLC) 2012044800 (OCoLC)809911078
ISBN	9780226043241 (electronic book)
	022604324X (electronic book)
	9780226043074
	022604307X
	9780226043104
	022604310X

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

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