Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics

Received the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre

Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. The post–Jim Crow, post–apartheid, postcolonial era has ushered in a purportedly color blind society and along with it an assault on race-based forms of knowledge production and coalition formation. Soyica Digg...