TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colbert,Soyica Diggs
TI  - Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics 
SN  - 9780813588520
U1  - 792.08996073 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - African American theater
KW  - History
KW  - African Americans in the performing arts
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - United States
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Webs of Affiliation --; 1. Flying Africans in Spaceships --; 2. Trapping Entanglements --; 3. Prophesying in Octavia Butler's Parable Series --; 4. Marching --; 5. "Why do you look for the living among the dead?": Locating the Future of Black Studies --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. The post-Jim Crow, post-apartheid, postcolonial era has ushered in a purportedly color blind society and along with it an assault on race-based forms of knowledge production and coalition formation. Soyica Diggs Colbert argues that in the late twentieth century race went "underground," and by the twenty-first century race no longer functioned as an explicit marker of second-class citizenship. The subterranean nature of race manifests itself in discussions of the Trayvon Martin shooting that focus on his hoodie, an object of clothing that anyone can choose to wear, rather than focusing on structural racism; in discussions of the epidemic proportions of incarcerated black and brown people that highlight the individual's poor decision making rather than the criminalization of blackness; in evaluations of black independence struggles in the Caribbean and Africa that allege these movements have accomplished little more than creating a black ruling class that mirrors the politics of its former white counterpart. Black Movements intervenes in these discussions by highlighting the ways in which artists draw from the past to create coherence about blackness in present and future worlds. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Black Movements offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and African American studies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813588544
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813588544
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