Black Patience - Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

"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"--

About the author

Julius B. Fleming Jr. is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he specializes in African American literary and cultural production and performance studies.

Product details

• Authors: Julius B. Fleming, Julius B. Fleming Jr, Julius B. Fleming Jr.
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781479806843
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-0684-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 441 g
• Series: Performance and American Cultures; Performance and American Cultu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history