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Black patience : performance, civil rights, and the unfinished project of emancipation / Julius B. Fleming, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleming, Julius B., Jr., author.
- Series:
- Performance and American cultures.
- NYU Press scholarship online.
- Performance and American cultures
- NYU Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American theater--History--20th century.
- African American theater.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Time--Philosophy.
- Time.
- Theater and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Theater and society.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- '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 this book, Julius B. Fleming Jr. argues that, during the Civil Rights Movement, Black artists and activists used theater to energise 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 theatre to unsettle a violent racial project that Fleming refers to as 'Black patience'.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Impatient to Be Free
- One Hundred Years Later: The Unfinished Project of Emancipation
- Black Time, Black Geography: The Free Southern Theater
- Black Queer Time and the Erotics of the Civil Rights Body
- Picturing White Impatience: Theatre and Visual Culture
- Lunch Counters, Prisons, and the Radical Potential of Black Patience.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 18, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-0687-0
- OCLC:
- 1292364998
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