Contemporary African Dance Theatre: Phenomenology, Whiteness, and the Gaze Cover:Paperback demonstrating how slavery fueled the 9781662660085 demonstrating how slavery fueled the growth of the Catholic Church in America and bringing to light the enslaved people whose forced labor helped to build the largest religious denomination in the nation In twenty two chapters This book is the first to consider contemporary African dance theatre aesthetics in the context of phenomenology Multiple aesthetic strategies are discussed throughout the book to account for the affective experience of 'un suturing' that touches white spectatorship and colonial guilt at their core