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Whoa! Whiteness in dance?

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Whoa! Whiteness in dance?(Whiteness studies)

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In our nation, black, white, and brown peoples inherit a mixed, shared culture. This is what makes the U.S.A. what it is. Each generation seeks new ways of dealing with old problems. American race relations in the new century are not the same as they were 100 years ago, and new ways of thinking about the problems are needed. One of these ways is the new area called "whiteness studies." Talking about whiteness means looking at racial issues as not only a problem of color. Whiteness studies invites Americans of all ethnicities to acknowledge, in novelist Ralph Ellison's words, "the inter-relatedness of blackness and whiteness" and to conceive of "white" not as superior to other cultures and lifestyles, but as part of the whole.

"Whiteness studies:" The point of giving it this name is to show that white--or whiteness--is not the "normal" state of being, with everything else a "deviation from the norm." Instead, it is simply one cultural stream out of many. This field is a new-kid-on-the-block addition to...

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