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What Chicago footwork can teach us about public housing communities

ShaDawn “Boobie” Battle was named the latest “Artist as Instigator” at the National Public Housing Museum.

   

ShaDawn “Boobie” Battle has collected nearly 200 oral history interviews about the Chicago dance known as footwork and is currently producing a docuseries about the art form.

Reset talks with her about her work and her residency as “Artist as Instigator” at the National Public Housing Museum.

GUEST: ShaDawn “Boobie” Battle, Artist as Instigator for National Public Housing Museum and a professor of Critical Ethnic and Black Studies at Xavier University

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