The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies

Abstract The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies presents an original scholarship that highlights the expansive richness of Black dance practices. Its chapters traverse diverse analytical genres and intellectual approaches, asserting a confident engagement with the African diaspora in motion. Each contribution explores how Black dance both shapes and reflects complex cultural, historical, and political dynamics. The book reveals how Black dance continually transforms creative and social life, leaving few domains untouched. It celebrates the dizzying abundance of Black dance as both a practice and a field of study. Through rising networks of connection, The Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies illuminates expressive gestures that encode and amplify the enduring presence and vitality of Black life.