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¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! The Dance That Crossed Color Lines
Dean Robbins
Illustrator: Eric Velasquez
Ages: 6+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 978-1-5362-0608-1
Keywords: Afro-Cuban music, jazz, dance, prejudice
When Latin Jazz comes to New York's Palladium Ballroom in the 1940s, dancers start partnering with people of different races, ethnicities, and religions. Realistic artwork, notes.