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Embodying Black experience : stillness, critical memory, and the Black body / Harvey Young.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Harvey, 1975-
- Series:
- Theater--theory/text/performance.
- Theater: theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- African Americans in art.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Body image--Social aspects.
- Body image.
- Anthropometry--Social aspects.
- Anthropometry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 259 p. :) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life.
- Contents:
- Still standing : daguerreotypes, photography, and the Black body
- Between the ropes : staging the Black body in American boxing
- Touching history : staging Black experience
- Housing the memory of racial violence : Black body as souvenir, museum, and living remain.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472071111
- 0472071114
- 9780472027095
- 0472027093
- OCLC:
- 794700529
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