Black Patience : Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation /

A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater"Freedom, Now!" This rallying cry became the most iconic phrase of the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the persistent command that Black people wait-in the holds of slave ships and on auction blocks, in segr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fleming Jr., Julius B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2022]
Colección:Performance and American Cultures
Temas:
African American theater > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Theater and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Time > Philosophy > History > 20th century.
ART / Performance.
Affect.
Amiri Baraka.
Black Ontology.
Civil Rights Movement.
Disappearance.
Douglas Turner Ward.
Duke Ellington.
Emancipation.
Free Southern Theater.
Freedom.
Jail-ins.
James Baldwin.
Lorraine Hansberry.
Mississippi.
Movement.
Paul Carter Harrison.
Performance.
Plantation Geographies.
Queer Futures.
Queer Time.
Race.
Radicalism.
Sit-ins.
Slavery.
Stillness.
The Erotic.
Theatre.
Time.
Transnationalism.
U.S. South.
Visual Culture.
Whiteness.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Impatient to Be Free
  • 1. One Hundred Years Later: The Unfinished Project of Emancipation
  • 2. Black Time, Black Geography: The Free Southern Theater
  • 3. Black Queer Time and the Erotics of the Civil Rights Body
  • 4. Picturing White Impatience: Theatre and Visual Culture 181
  • 5. Lunch Counters, Prisons, and the Radical Potential of Black Patience
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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