Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation (Performance and American Cultures) - 9781479806829

This book argues that, since transatlantic slavery, patience has been used as a tool of anti-black violence and political exclusion, but shows how during the Civil Rights Movement black artists and activists used theatre to demand freedom now," staging a radical challenge to this deferral of black freedom and citizenship"--

• | Author: Julius B. Fleming Jr.
• | Publisher: Nyu Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 29, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 147980682X
• | ISBN-13: 9781479806829