... expansive anticolonial cultural politics that had been integral to the lives and careers of such participants as Katherine Dunham, Langston Hughes, and Duke Ellington. The uneasy, unacknowledged presence of a broader anticolonial cultural politics, and an urgent sense of the unfinished struggle against...

... pioneered by choreogra- heritage.”16 phers Katherine Dunham and Pearl Primus, whose careers Jones would follow.14 Jones’s time in New Pedagogy York that summer shaped the dramatic way that she Nearly five decades of teaching art and design at portrayed the mask in her work, beginning with her Howard...

... Garden, her arrival at would design hats for Gone with the Wind—as the opera “was so spectacular that the singers were well as for Katherine Dunham,9 Ginger Rogers, put completely out of countenance.”6 In Rome at Gloria Vanderbilt,10 Marian Anderson, and Joan the coronation of Pope Pius XI, La...

... of Chicago in the 1930s, his circle had included many who bridged the gap between the social sciences and the arts. Cortor knew Katherine Dunham, for example, and cited Richard Wright as a direct influence on his work in the early 1940s. 7 Cortor, Plan of Work, Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, folder 8, box...