Ring Shout, Wheel About Ardra L. Cole Righteous Discontent

Righteous Discontent

the author makes clear that far from being just an entertaining children's book

their government and politics

empathy and kinship with our environments

Ring Shout, Wheel About Ardra L. Cole Righteous DiscontentIn this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was used by white Europeans and Americans to justify enslavement, perpetuate the existing racial hierarchy, and mask the brutality of the domestic slave trade.