Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy
Halifu Osumare
University Press of Florida
Respected for her work as both professional dancer and trailblazing academic, Osumare shares experiences from her second career — having transitioned from performing Black dance to writing it into history as a Black studies scholar — that show the potential of scholarship in revealing and documenting underrecognized stories of Black dance and global pop culture. In this memoir, Osumare dances across several fields of study while ruminating on how the Black past reveals itself in the Afro-present that is transforming into the Afrofuture.