A talk by Anna Helgeson

February 11 at 7:00pm

***Part of the FIRST DRAFT series of evening talks***

Another look at the Cake Walk

It started with a dance. To blow off steam, to feel human again, to assert subversive power in a world stripped of agency. Eventually becoming America’s first cultural export to Europe and popular dance craze, spawning entirely new genera of music, dress, and movement. Expressions like “it’s a piece of cake” and “that takes the cake” entered our lexicon. For over fifty years this performance captured the American and European imagination. Today we know it as a game for school fundraisers.

How does cultural amnesia happen and what can we learn by taking another look with a 21st century perspective?

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Racism is a Piece of Cake!