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The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus. by Peggy and Murray Schwartz. 2011. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 336 pp. text + 16 insert pp., photographs, notes, appendices, works cited, index. $35 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Joanna Dee Das
Joanna Dee Das
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Columbia University
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , Winter 2012 , pp. 111 - 114
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2012

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