Anti-Racists Resources
FREE ONLINE:
Timeline of Black Ballet Dancers, 1919-Present
20th Century Black American Dance
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/history-of-black-dance-20th-century-black-american-dance/
“Moving While Black: Black Dance and the EmBOD(Y)ment of Social Movement as Theory, History, and Practice” Thesis paper by Amira Chambers Ottley, 2018 content.cgi?article=2944&context=etd_hon_theses
Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture (most of the book is free on Google Scholar)
BOOKS:
The New Jim Crowe: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin
The Black Dancing Body by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers is Saving Ballet From Itself by Chloe Angyal
Steppin’ on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance by Jacqui Malone
DOCUMENTARIES, FILMS, AND SERIES:
13th on Netflix and YouTube
When They See Us on Netflix
Moonlight
Dear White People on Netflix
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
DANCE PERFORMANCES
“SHOT” by Donald Byrd
DTH On Demand Presents: VESSELS by Dance Theatre of Harlem
“ink” by Camille A. Brown and dancers
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Chroma, Grace, Takademe, Revelations (2015)
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