"Rosemarie A. Roberts has constructed a sturdy and urgent study of how Hip Hop dance reflects particular cultural imperatives that are often elided in the construction of false theoretical universals. She masterfully explores the scholarly construction of the question of body and the 'ways that histories of social inequality are borne' across several areas of research. Ultimately, this book confirms the myriad complexities at work in the deployment of Hip Hop dance in theatrical and learning environments circumscribed by differences among people too often ignored or denied."–Thomas DeFrantz, professor, Duke University
"Baring Unbearable Sensualities is methodologically groundbreaking, theoretically incisive, and politically inspiring...a major contribution to Hip Hop dance scholarship."–Joseph G. Schloss, author of Foundation: B-Boys, B-Girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York