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Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. 2012. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 340 pp. + 41 pages of plates (1 folded), photographs, notes, appendices, index. $27 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2014

Jill Nunes Jensen
Jill Nunes Jensen*
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Loyola Marymount University
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 2: Body Parts: Pelvis, Feet, Face, Hips, Legs, Toes, and Teeth , August 2014 , pp. 115 - 118
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