Joanna Dee Das

Das is an associate professor in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis and an affiliate of the Program in American Culture Studies, the African and African-American Studies Department, the History Department, and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity. She writes about dance, musical theater, variety entertainment, country music and how those forms have played a role in several social and political movements, including the long Black Freedom Struggle, decolonization, modern conservatism and the Religious Right.