Understanding Blackness Through Performance: Contemporary
How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race,class,gender,and sexuality? Resistance and redeployment strategies inform the world of black theatre,performance,and theory,generating a multiplicity of positions from an intersectional perspective. Here,the contributors look into representational practices in film,music,literature,sculpture,video,vaudeville,fashion,and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles,while recognizing that they have sometimes