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Embodying Black experience : stillness, critical memory, and the Black body / Harvey Young.

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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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