Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-190).
Contents:
Part 3 Bibliography and Further Reading / Bryant Keith Alexander and Mary E. Weems. Still Hanging/On: 'Strange Fruit' and 'Glory'- Songs of/as/in Protest / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Interlude 1 : On Blackouts and Black Notes / : Bryant Keith Alexander -- Black Notes / Mary E. Weems -- Interlude 2 : Confluences of Pain / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Let the People See What They Did to My Child / Mary E. Weems -- George Floyd's Mama / Mary E. Weems -- Wendy's, Me, and Rayshard Brooks / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Where's the Beef? / Mary E. Weems -- Interlude 3 : A Moment of Prayer / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Three Meditations on Prayer and Particularity / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Interlude 4 : Courageous Conversations / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Three Conversations / Mary E. Weems -- Interlude 5 : Trigger Warnings / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Interlude 6 : Bamboozled / Mary E. Weems -- Eat Fresh / Mary E. Weems -- Not a Fan Letter / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Interlude 7 : Hanging Chads? / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Part 2 Bodies on the Line / Bryant Keith Alexander and Mary E. Weems -- Attached? / Mary E. Weems -- Still Hanging? / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Interlude 8 : A Crack in My Heart / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Crack the Door for Some Air / Mary E. Weems -- Part 3 Black/White Double Consciousness / Bryant Keith Alexander and Mary E. Weems -- Is There a White Double Consciousness? / Mary E. Weems and Keith Alexander Bryant -- Study Questions, Prompts, and Probes / Bryant Keith Alexander -- Notes for Teachers, Faculty, and Facilitators on Establishing a Learning Community / Mary E. Weems -- Bibliography and Further Reading / Bryant Keith Alexander and Mary E. Weems.
Summary:
"The current socio-political climate in the United States sheds a critical, glaring light on the racism and white supremacy which has been part of the fabric of this country since the seventeenth century. Barack Obama's tenure as president resulted in a major increase in white hate groups, hate crimes, and unrelenting violence against innocent Black men and women by police. In response, people of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, religions, ages and classes have taken to the streets in protest, and increased decades long efforts to organize against racism and for a more empathetic, just, democratic society. Social change about racism must begin with acknowledgement followed by open, focused, critical dialogue. Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism, referencing both the resilience of Black people in the face of institutionalized racism and systemic oppression, and the fact that Black people continue to be literally and metaphorically lynched in 2020, is designed to use the power of lived experience specific performance texts as frames for engaging faculty, students and others interested in beginning to deconstruct racism and construct an anti-racist way of being"-- Provided by publisher.
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