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These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the United States

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Black Ballerinas Up to Age 5 has long been relegated toFrom New York Times bestselling and award winning author and American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland comes an illustrated nonfiction collection celebrating dancers of color who have influenced her on and off the stage. As a young girl living in a motel with her mother and her five siblings, Misty Copeland didnt have a lot of exposure to ballet or prominent dancers. She was sixteen when she saw a black ballerina on a magazine cover for