Lashon Daley on Black Ballerinas in Picture Books

Lashon Daley on Black Ballerinas in Picture Books

Lashon Daley published "Black Ballerinas in Picture Books: Rupturing the Color Line in American Children’s Literature" on Dancer's Group. Lashon is a Black girlhood studies scholar, who has a specific exerptise in the intersection of dance studies and children's literary studies, so she is uniquely well positioned to review Firebird by Misty Copeland.

From the article:

Black ballerinas develop not just a Black habitus, but a Black ballerina habitus that is constructed by the ways their bodies are subdued as a result of the intense training, and in the way their blackness is subdued.

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