African american dance: a complex history. Christian conversion and the challenge of dance. Dance and identity politics in American negro vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters, 1900-1935. Awkward moves: dance lessons from the 1940s. (Up)staging the primitive: Pearl Primus and the "negro problem" in American dance. African dance in New York city. From "Messin' Around" to "Funky Western Civilization": the rise and fall of dance instruction songs. "Moves on top of blues": Dianne McIntyre's blue aesthetic. Kykunkor, or the Witch Women: an african opera in America. Between to eras: "Norton and Margot" in the afro-american entertainment world. Katherine Dunham's Southland: protest in the face of repression. The New York Negro Ballet in Great Britain.