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Mabingo, Alfdaniels – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2022
What is 'African dance'? Is the label 'African dance' representative enough of the diverse dance traditions in African communities, or is it just another form of tokenism? How is the term 'African dance' rooted in the histories of colonial racism against the African people? What are the dangers of using the same label as an attempt at instituting…
Descriptors: Dance, African Culture, Colonialism, Racism
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Jenkins, Toby S.; Boutte, Gloria; Wynter-Hoyte, Kamania – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
In this essay, we center hip-hop culture and Black cultural legacies. We envision and offer a two-fold framework which illuminates the intersection between the two. We explore ways that the Black cultural experience (or better yet Black cultural praxis) has always brilliantly and organically demonstrated the shape and form of a scholarship of…
Descriptors: African American Culture, Popular Culture, Freedom, African Culture
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Marcella dos Santos Abreu; Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This article revisits the "jongo" activity 'Pisei na Pedra' (2014) integrated into the "Nossa Casinha" guide (Martins & Sala, 2022) for teaching Portuguese to migrant children. "Jongo" is seen as an Afro-Brazilian form of expression, encompassing chants, drumming, collective dance, and spirituality (Rufino, 2014,…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Cruz Banks, Ojeya – Journal of Dance Education, 2021
Rhythmic virtuosity or moving with "percussive attack" is an ultimate performance quality for Black/African dance. The practice of musicality is a window into a dynamic system of intersubjective communal creativity. Drumming, for example, provides percussive sensorial information that directs a dancer's somatic and choreographic…
Descriptors: African Culture, Music, Dance Education, Dance
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Chappell, Mindy J.; Varelas, Maria – Science Education, 2020
We explored how arts-based practices, specifically what we define as ethnodance informs the study of science identity. We present a theoretical argument supported by an empirical illustration of how ethnodance offers Black youth with dance identities a medium to narrate evolving science identities, communicating meanings, interactions, and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Teaching Methods, Art Activities, Dance
Bolles, A. Lynn – Sage, 1986
The Black anthropologist, Vera Mae Green, is featured in this analysis of the concept of soul as applied to African-Americans. Music and dance are used to express soul in cultural context. But soul is also a force, an energy which encompasses the Black experience and makes Black culture persevere. (VM)
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Culture, Blacks, Dance