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hula dancers and prostitutes both provided “entertainment”
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
“Are they real?
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s
Matthew Collin • Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
“We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Furthermore, Luau produces a gendered regulation of Native bodies.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Destroying a woman’s instinctive affiliation with her natural body cheats her of confidence. It causes her to perseverate about whether she is a good person or not, and bases her self-worth on how she looks instead of who she is.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
labored to revive traditional forms of hula, but they also put themselves on display.