American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Rac
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Hancock, Black Hawk
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Standards
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2013
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University of Chicago Press
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English
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βPerhaps,β wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, βthe zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power.β As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms are larger and more important than