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Foulkes, Julia L. "Dancing America: Modern Dance and Cultural Nationalism, 1925-1950," History Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, February 1997.
In 1930, the modern dancer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of “dance as an art of and from America.” White women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and some African Americans populated modern dance and challenged gender, sexual, racial, and class norms with idealized visions of American democracy and pluralism. The convergence of these marginalized groups in modern dance demonstrates the critical role that social identities played in 1930s cultural nationalism. Modern dancers found in dance the medium through which they could explore what distinguished them from white males often depicted as the consummate expression of American individualism: their bodies.
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