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Author:
Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979- author.
Title:
Black movements : performance and cultural politics / Soyica Diggs Colbert.
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
229 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
African American theater--History.
Performing arts--United States--History.
African Americans--History.--History.
Civil rights movements--United States--History.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Civil rights movements--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Webs of Affiliation 1 Flying Africans in Spaceships 2 Entrapping and Ensnaring Entanglements 3 Prophesying in Octavia Butler's Parable Series 4 Marching Epilogue: "Why do you look for the living among the dead?": Locating the Future of Black Studies -- Notes BibliographyIndex.
Summary:
"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. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Colbert offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and American studies"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0813588510
9780813588513
0813588529
9780813588520
OCLC:
(OCoLC)959034638
LCCN:
2016033726
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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