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Author:
Fleming, Julius B., Jr., author.
Title:
Black patience : performance, civil rights, and the unfinished project of emancipation / Julius B. Fleming, Jr.
Publisher:
New York University Press,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
1900-1999
African American theater--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
Time--History--History--20th century.
Theater and society--United States--History--20th century.
African American theater.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Race relations.
Theater and society.
Time--Philosophy.
United States--Race relations--20th century.
United States.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Performance and American cultures
ISBN:
1479806846
9781479806843
147980682X
9781479806829
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1257313461
LCCN:
2021027740
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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