"When Men Dance : Choreogrpahing Masculinities Across Borders" - Jennifer Fisher and Anthony Shay

"Dance, Difference, and Racial Dualism at the Turn of the Century" - John Perpener III

"Is Dance a Men’s Sport Too?: The Performance of Athletic-Coded Masculinity on the Concert Dance Stage" - Maura Keefe

"The Performance of Unmarked Masculinity" - Ramsay Burt

"Dancing Race and Masculinity Across Midcentury Screens: The Nicholas Brothers, Gene Kelly, and Elvis Presley on American Film and TV" - Pamela Grenelle Krayenbuhl (dissertation)

"Dance and Gender" - Wendy Oliver and Doug Risner

"Rehearsing masculinity: challenging the 'boy code' in dance education" - Doug Risner

"Male Dancer Privilege" - Andre Rivera

"Dancing Fear and Desire: Race, Sexuality and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance" Stavros Stavrou Karayanni

"A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt" - Karin van Nieuwkerk

"Belly Dance and Glocalisation: Constructing Gender in Egypt and on the Global Stage" - Caitlin McDonald (dissertation)

"Between Orientalism and Westernization: Belly Dance as a Transnational American Studies Case" - Perin Gurel (specifically focuses on Turkish belly dance)

"The Creative Development of Mahmoud Reda, A Contemporary Egyptian Choreographer" - Farida Fahmy

"Dance as Living Cultural Heritage: A Transcultural Ethnochoreological Analysis of Egyptian Raqs Sharqi" - Valeria Lo Iacono (dissertation)

"Dancing Boys" - Anthony Shay

"Choreographing Masculinity: Hypermasculine Dance Styles as Invented Tradition in Egypt, Iran and Uzbekistan" - Anthony Shay

"The Male Dancer in the Middle East and Central Asia" - Anthony Shay

"Egyptian Belly Dance in Transition: The Raqs Sharqi Revolution, 1890-1930" - Heather D. Ward

"Before They Were Belly Dancers: European Accounts of Female Entertainers in Egypt, 1760-1870" - Kathleen W. Fraser

"The Homoerotics of Orientalism" - Joseph Boone

"Serena, Ruth St. Denis, and The Evolution of Belly Dance in America (1876–1976)" - Paul Eugene Monty

"A Pictorial History of Turkish Dancing" - Metin And

"Gender Irregularity" - Everett K. Rowson

"The Effeminates of Early Medina" - Everett K. Rowson

“Oriental Fantasy: A postcolonial discourse analysis of Western belly dancers’ imaginations of Egypt and dance festivals in Egypt” - Mavis Hooi (thesis)

The Salimpour Compendium - Abigail Keyes

"Manhood is Not Easy: Egyptian Masculinities through the Life of Musician Sayyid Henkish" - Karin van Nieuwkerk

"The Homoerotics of Orientalism" - Joseph Boone

"Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800" - Khaled El-Rouayheb

"Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking The Concept" - R. W. Connell and James W. Messerschmidt

"Masculinities and Culture" - John Beynon

"Inclusive Masculinity Theory" - Eric Anderson and Mark McCormack

“Orientalism” - Edward Said

"Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy" - Gholdy Muhammad

"How to Be an Antiracist" - Ibram X Kendi

"So You Want to Talk about Race" - Ijeoma Oluo

"White Supremacy Culture" - Tema Okun

"White Fragility" - Robin DiAngelo

(note: While DiAngelo’s book is a useful resource in recognizing one’s own privilege, she is criticized for profiting off black trauma and experience while living as a white, for-profit anti-racism educator. In this article, “For Whyte Folx Who Profit Off of Dead Black Bodies & Call it Anti-Racism”, The Ebenezer Project offers a great critical view of DiAngelo’s book and the industry of for-profit anti-racism education.)

"Transnational Fusion Dance… An Open Letter to My Dance Community" - Donna Mejia

"Intersectionality: An Intellectual History" - Ange-Marie Hancock

“Colonize This! Young Women of Color Feminism” - ed. Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman

"Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice" - Nyama McCarthy-Brown

"Decolonize Dance Curriculum in Higher Education: One Credit at a Time" - Nyama McCarthy-Brown

"Decolonization is not a metaphor" - Tuck & Yang

"Teaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy: Critical Reflections Inside and Outside the Classroom" - Victoria F. Trinder

"Pedagogy of the Oppressed" - Paulo Freire

"Decolonizing Dance Teacher Education: Reflections of Four Teachers of Indigenous Dances in African Postcolonial Environments" - Mabingo et al.

"Why Dancers Should Care about Colonialism — because it’s “The Gift that Keeps on Giving"" - Julianna Cressman

"Teaching Community" - bell hooks

"Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues" - AnaLouise Keating

"A People's History" - Howard Zinn