Bumpa
(2025)
August 22, 2025
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Overview
This documentary will explore the Afro-Caribbean dance, ‘whining’ alongside the practice of twerking to analyze respectability politics, pressures to accommodate whiteness, and gendered criticism of sexual expression within the Black diaspora. Using archival footage of West African dance, expert opinion from dancing and gender studies professors, and the active participation of partygoers in a dance experiment, Watkins will paint the picture of the defiance, autonomy, and ancestral veneration intrinsic to these traditional movement styles.
Keywords
dance
dancer
sexuality
autonomy
gender
sensuality
exploring sexuality
female sexuality
west african
west africa
twerking
whining
defiance
black community
social experiment
ancestral
cultures of west africa
whiteness
safe spaces
black women
suppression of sexual expression
caribbean studies and caribbean disapora
afro-caribbean
respectability politics
hypersexualization
desexualization
bodily autonomy
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Original Language
EN
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