This work references the Banana Dance performed by Josephine Baker in Paris in 1926. The word “jaba” is a negative informal expression from the Dominican Republic that is the equivalent to the term “high yellow” used here in the United States, meaning a very light skinned black person. In this video, the performance artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez wears a skirt similar to the one worn by Josephine Baker in her dance. However, instead of bananas, the skirt is made up of miniature doll heads of various ethnic races and he wears a mask of my face, both created through a phototransfer process on fabric. By re-enacting this performance, I wanted to make reference to the historical act, which was about white Parisian culture consuming the acts of a black female body, but in presenting a man in the guise of Josephine Baker, I wanted to reconsider the original narrative of the Banana Dance, which eroticized the black, female body and the consummation of such. Identity between male and female are fluid and its the male body which becomes the object of desire and the erotic, the same way Josephine was.