Choreographing in Color Filipinos Hip-Hop the Cultural Politics of Euphemism

"... [B]y also focusing on the historical and embodied relations between Filipinoness and Blackness, Perillo's work follows in the footsteps of hip-hop scholars such as Halifu Osumare and H. Samy Alim. Perillo shares with Osumare and Alim the critical analysis of hip-hop artists that transcend borders and cultures and the complex affinities created by global hip-hop practices." -- Maïko Le Lay, Dance Chronicle "Choreographing in Color provides broad and in-depth sociohistorical context and is useful in expanding upon the link between hip-hop's globalization alongside the Philippines's diasporas. A relationship between the globalization of hip-hop and street dance alongside Filipino bodies and the (im)possibility of self-reflexivity is one of the book's key strengths." -- Al Evangelista, Theatre Journal "Perillo's sophisticated research, in this chapter and across the entire book, plumbs popular dance phenomena to ask how numerous histories of empire and racial capitalism disperse culture and bodies in violent ways, and to document the creative tactics transnational Filipinos use to assemble critique, pleasure, and style." -- Kareem Khubchandani, Asian Journal of Social Science "Choreographing in Color is a milestone in Filipino Studies, cultural studies and the transnational study of dance as a world-making process. Perillo looks at the multi-sited creativity of Filipino dancers and dance cultures as they cross cultural, national, and ethno-racial borders. Sensitive to the colonial and postcolonial histories of Filipinos and the Philippines, this book advances a capacious and complex picture of dance's exuberant and critical role in a globalizing world." -- Martin F. Manalansan, University of Minnesota