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offers important insights into the role of religion in this transformation

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and current issues around diversity and inclusion

Ring Shout, Wheel About Rod Scher combining a concise overview ofIn this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade.