Still Hanging

Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism

AvBryant Keith Alexander,Mary E. Weems

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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The current socio-political climate in the United States sheds a critical, glaring light on the racism and white supremacy which has been part of the fabric of this country since the seventeenth century. Barack Obama’s tenure as president resulted in a major increase in white hate groups, hate crimes, and unrelenting violence against innocent Black men and women by police. In response, people of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, religions, ages and classes have taken to the streets in protest, and increased decades long efforts to organize against racism and for a more empathetic, just, democratic society. Social change about racism must begin with acknowledgement followed by open, focused, critical dialogue.Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism, referencing both the resilience of Black people in the face of institutionalized racism and systemic oppression, and the fact that Black people continue to be literally and metaphorically lynched in 2020, is designed to use the power of lived experience specific performance texts as frames for engaging faculty, students and others interested in beginning to deconstruct racism and construct an anti-racist way of being.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-04-30
Mått:155 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt:357 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Personal/Public Scholarship
Antal sidor:190
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004464834

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Bryant Keith Alexander, Ph.D. (1998), is Professor and Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, Loyola Marymount University. He is author of Performing Black Masculinity (Alta Mira, 2006), and The Performative Sustainability of Race (Peter Lang, 2012).Mary E. Weems, M.A., Ph.D. (2001), is an Independent Scholar, imagination-intellect theorist, poet and author. Recent books include Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues (Sense, 2015) and Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2013).

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AcknowledgementsMessage about Cover ArtList of FiguresAbout the AuthorsIntroductionPART 1: Sounds of Blackness1 Still Hanging/On: ‘Strange Fruit’ and ‘Glory’ — Songs of/as/in Protest: Or, from Stage to Page: Documenting Ideological PerformanceBryant Keith AlexanderInterlude 1: On Blackouts and Black NotesBryant Keith Alexander2 Black NotesMary E. WeemsInterlude 2: Confluences of PainBryant Keith Alexander3 Let the People See What They Did to My ChildMary E. Weems4 George Floyd’s MamaMary E. Weems5 Wendy’s, Me, and Rayshard Brooks: Another Black Man Killed (June 12, 2020)Bryant Keith Alexander6 Where’s the Beef?Mary E. WeemsInterlude 3: A Moment of PrayerBryant Keith Alexander7 Three Meditations on Prayer and Particularity: Or: On Black Mothers, Social Justice, and Queering CatholicismBryant Keith AlexanderInterlude 4: Courageous ConversationsBryant Keith Alexander8 Three ConversationsMary E. WeemsInterlude 5: Trigger WarningsBryant Keith AlexanderInterlude 6: BamboozledMary E. Weems9 Eat FreshMary E. Weems10 Not a Fan Letter: Or, Trigger Warning: An Autoethnographic Rant on Jussie SmollettBryant Keith AlexanderInterlude 7: Hanging Chads?Bryant Keith AlexanderPART 2: Bodies on the Line11 Attached?Mary E. Weems12 Still Hanging?Bryant Keith AlexanderInterlude 8: A Crack in My HeartBryant Keith Alexander13 Crack the Door for Some AirMary E. WeemsPART 3: Black/White Double Consciousness14 Is There a White Double Consciousness? A Short DialogueMary E. Weems and Bryant Keith AlexanderStudy Questions, Prompts, and ProbesBryant Keith AlexanderNotes for Teachers, Faculty, and Facilitators on Establishing a Learning CommunityMary E. WeemsBibliography and Further Reading