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

Author :  Julius B. Fleming Jr.

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Country
United States
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN 9781479806843
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info 320 p,6 x 9 x 22.86mm
Categories Black & Asian Studies
Product Weight 431 gms.
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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 segregated bus stops and schoolyards-for their long-deferred liberation. In Black Patience, Julius B. Fleming Jr. argues that, during the Civil Rights Movement, Black artists and activists used theater to energize this radical refusal to wait. Participating in a vibrant culture of embodied political performance that ranged from marches and sit-ins to jail-ins and speeches, these artists turned to theater to unsettle a violent racial project that Fleming refers to as "Black patience." Inviting the likes of James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Douglas Turner Ward, Duke Ellington, and Oscar Brown Jr. to the stage, Black Patience illuminates how Black artists and activists of the Civil Rights era used theater to expose, critique, and repurpose structures of white supremacy. In this bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement, Fleming contends that Black theatrical performance was a vital technology of civil rights activism, and a crucial site of Black artistic and cultural production.

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