Title Dancing in blackness : a memoir / Halifu Osumare.

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
	©2017

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Foreword / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- Introduction: dancing in blackness -- Coming of age through (black) dance in the San Francisco Bay area -- Dancing in Europe -- Dancing in New York -- Dancing back into the S.F.-Oakland Bay area, 1973-1976 -- Dancing in Africa -- Dancing in the Oakland and beyond, 1977-1993.
Summary	This book explores a black female dancer's personal journey over four decades across three continents and numerous countries, including different parts of the U.S. It is personal musings about the place of dance and race in Halifu Osumare's life across time and space that defined her life choices and career path.
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Subject	Osumare, Halifu.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Osumare, Halifu.
	African American women dancers -- Biography.
	African American women dancers.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Dance -- United States -- Biography.
	Dance.
	United States.
	African American dance -- History.
	African American dance.
	History.
Genre/Form	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Osumare, Halifu. Dancing in blackness. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017 9780813056616 (DLC) 2017031786 (OCoLC)994206135
ISBN	9780813052380 (electronic book)
	0813052386 (electronic book)
	9780813056616
	0813056616