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Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism

Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism

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Series: Personal/Public Scholarship, Book 11

General EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 9004464832
ISBN13: 9789004464834
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 30 2021
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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