It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Ring Shout, Wheel About by Katrina Dyonne Thompson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 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. Whether on slave ships, at the auction block, or on plantations, whites often used coerced performances to oppress and demean the enslaved. As...
Ring Shout, Wheel About by Katrina Dyonne Thompson is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Ring Shout, Wheel About aloud.
Ring Shout, Wheel About is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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