Black Hawk Hancockis an Assistant Professor of Sociology at DePaul University. He is currently working on a book about the cultural and racial politics of the social world of dance entitled American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination.Roberta Garneris a Professor of Sociology at DePaul University in Chicago. She is a co-editor of The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis (Temple University Press, 2006), and author of Contemporary Movements and Ideologies(McGraw-Hill, 1995) and Social Theory: Continuity and Confrontation, A Reader(Broadview Press, 2007).