Performance Art: Dancing for your rights
14 June 2016 - 10:11
Michikazu Matsune couldn't stop laughing when he read a story about an African-American dancer called Abdur Rahim Jackson who was asked to dance in order to prove he belonged to the Alvin Ailey company. Passport control officers at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport made the request in 2008 and exposed how pervasive racial and cultural profiling remains.
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