The first analysis of the development of the jook and other dance arenas in African-American culture.

From ballet and contemporary to hip-hop and even Broadway, this book reveals what it really takes to build a career in dance today.

While gender and race often are considered socially constructed, this book argues that they are physiologically constituted through the biopsychosocial effects

The laugh sensation that swept the nation, How to Speak Southern and More How to Speak Southern, is now collected in one complete–and completely hilarious–v

Modern Moves examines the movement of social dances between black and white cultural groups and immigrant and migrant communities during the early twentieth cen