Educated Feet: Tap Dancing and Embodied Feminist Pedagogies at a Small Liberal Arts College

Autor/in	Thomas, Sonja
Titel	Educated Feet: Tap Dancing and Embodied Feminist Pedagogies at a Small Liberal Arts College
Quelle	In: Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 27 (2017) 2-3, S.196-210 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0882-4843
DOI	10.5406/femteacher.27.2-3.0196
Schlagwörter	Feminism; Dance; Critical Theory; Small Colleges; Liberal Arts; Race; Womens Studies; African Americans; American Studies; Course Descriptions; Maine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Feminismus; Tanz; Kritische Theorie; College; Colleges; Oberschule; Rasse; Abstammung; Afroamerikaner; Kursstrukturplan
Abstract	In this article, the author examines tap dance as an embodied feminist pedagogy through a course she teaches called Critical Race Feminisms and Tap Dance at Colby College, a small liberal arts college (SLAC) in Waterville, Maine. The course combines introductory tap dancing with elements of critical race theory and black feminist thought. Students learn to tap dance and perform the "Shim Sham Shimmy," a dance known as the national anthem of tap dancers. They also learn how the dominant history of tap tends to highlight the contributions from black male tappers in the early twentieth century, and the recovery of the tap tradition by white/nonblack female performers in the late twentieth century. The author uses this history of tap as a paradigm for "all the women are white, all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave" whereby tap is either authenticated through the black male experience or legitimated as a form of art by white female performers. In Critical Race Feminisms and Tap Dance, the author uses embodied feminist pedagogies to teach through the concept of intersectionality and to highlight the educational nature of the beat. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01