Offers an analysis of the development of the jook, an underground cultural institution created by the black working class with other dance arenas in African-American culture. Presenting the effects of African slaves' middle passage experience on their traditional dances, this work traces the unique dance culture that developed in the rural South.
Katrina Hazzard-Gordon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, Camden, and the founder and director of the Diaspora Dance Theatre and Research Group.
