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| He is much like tens of millions of Americans who have reacted to the Bush administration's embrace of torture and indefinite extra-judicial detention of terrorism suspects by (in Isabel Patterson's words) "giving approval, elaborating justifications, or else cloaking facts with silence, and discountenancing discussion. For Isaiah Shembe, this approbative Western gaze, however cracked, affirmed what a tactical success his acceptance of dance had been: His initial discountenancing of it had been influenced by sensitivity to outsiders' censure; now came their approval, vindicating his subsequently defiant prodance stance and, for both sides, bringing his movement out of the political woods. |
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