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- Course name
- Critical Race Feminisms and Tap Dance
- Institution
- Colby College
- Instructor
- Sonja Thomas
- Subject
- Women's Studies
- Course dates
- 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC – 2024-02-07 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 25
An introduction to critical race feminism and tap dance. Students will learn about the history of tap dance in the United States and abroad, black feminist thought, the concept of intersectionality, and the hypervisibility of raced bodies. Students will learn to perform and name basic tap skills and the "shim sham shimmy," a dance historically performed by African-American female tap dancers in Harlem; to perform a visual cultural analysis; to understand and think critically about concepts from critical race theory, black feminist thought, and feminist performance theory; and to know the history of tap dance and its significance to racial politics in the United States.
On wikipedia, students will be creating/editing tap dancer biographies--with a special emphasis on Black performers, and female performers.