DANC 302g Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hip-Hop Dance, White Supremacy, Internalized Racism
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Because the term is conceptual, it cannot refer to a specific person or group of people. Jackson: beingness-the quality, state, or condition of having existence. Blacks don"t know how to swim: manichean. It subjects black people to inescapable stereotypes and prejudices, therefore limiting opportunities and promoting systemic racial practices. Its gaze is impactful upon the black community as its watchful eye hinders the success of that individual. But rather by what the white gaze wants others to view them as. Dancers involved in this cultural practice sustaina clear overstanding that the way in which things are said is just important as what is said. Hinton states that early in the slave experience, afro-american dance split into two basic streams. What are they: the social assignment of black bodies to an underclass is a historical conundrum that has multiple origins, two of which are the institutions of slavery and mass media - black.
