<i>Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion</i>, and: <i>Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance</i> (review)

Mumford worked toward “a decentralized, green vision for an aesthetically, politically and ecologically reconstructed urban and rural environment” (104). This tradition continues today in the form of Natural Systems Agriculture and the ecologically-oriented community planners commonly lumped together as the New Urbanists. This reader wished Minteer had more thoroughly explored the intersection of conservation with the cultural pluralism that civic pragmatists also championed. Rather than a defect of Minteer’s research, however, that criticism suggests important directions for scholarship that builds from this important and timely book. Miami University Kevin C. Armitage