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American Studies

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Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea

By Anita Gonzalez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, American Studies, Class Studies

How race, performance, and labor interconnect on Caribbean cruise ships through the lens of a destination lecturer

Democracy Moving

Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past

By Ariel Nereson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Moving Islands

Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific

By Diana Looser
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Art, Dance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A pathbreaking exploration of the international and intercultural connections within Oceanian performance

Queer Nightlife

By Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark

Ishtyle

Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife

By Kareem Khubchandani
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay nightlife as sociopolitical performance

The Bodies of Others

Drag Dances and Their Afterlives

By Selby Wynn Schwartz
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.

Latin Numbers

Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance

By Brian Eugenio Herrera
Subjects: American Studies, Theater and Performance, Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Dance

From the conga line to West Side Story to Ricky Martin, how popular performance prompted American audiences to view Latinos as a distinct (and distinctly non-white) ethnic group

Butch Queens Up in Pumps

Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

By Marlon M. Bailey
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

20 years after Paris Is Burning, a rare look at Ballroom culture—from the inside

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

By Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

I Want to Be Ready

Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom

By Danielle Goldman
Subjects: Dance, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies

A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

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