"The publication also includes a DVD of video samples for each of the performances documented, discussed, and analyzed within"--Introduction.
Contents:
Acknowledgments / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera. Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera -- Sugar : a work-in-progress / Robbie McCauley -- Interview with Robbie McCauley / E. Patrick Johnson -- I've got the sweetest hangover : Robbie McCauley's Sugar / Sandra L. Richards -- Big-butt girls, hard-headed women / Rhodessa Jones -- Interview with Rhodessa Jones / E. Patrick Johnson -- In the space between living and dying : Rhodessa Jones's Big-butt girls, hard-headed women / Lisa Biggs -- Passing solo / Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy -- Interview with Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy / Jennifer Devere Brody -- Performing passing and passing as performance : on Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy's Passing solo, based on Nella Larsen's novella Passing / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Adventures of a black girl in search of academic clarity and inclusion / Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe -- Interview with Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe / Omi Osun Joni Jones -- How does it feel to be a problem? : Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe's Adventures of a black girl in search of academic clarity and inclusion / Renee Alexander-Craft -- Delta dandi : ritual/jazz theater / Sharon Bridgforth -- Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Anita Gonzalez Aquanova -- Collapsing time in the lives of Sharon Bridgforth's Delta dandi / Stephanie Batiste -- Quiet frenzy / Stacey Robinson -- Interview with Stacey Robinson / Diana Paulin -- The body, trauma, and history in Stacey Robinson's Quiet frenzy / Nadine George Graves -- Milkweed / Misty DeBerry -- Interview with Misty DeBerry / Raquel Monroe -- Witness and the politics of readdressing black pain and pleasure: Misty DeBerry's Milkweed / Francesca Royster -- Acknowledgments / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera.
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