Abstract

‘To twerk is to dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squat stance.’ But twerking is also about redefining whiteness in a queered millennial era. Recent cultural appropriations of this African-American dance by mainstream media shows how twerking might be misjudged as trash and degrading for women. Confronting France and the United States in this topic allows a cultural and postcolonial understanding of big black butts.