Black Patience : : Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation / / Julius B. Fleming Jr.
A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater“Freedom, Now!” This rallying cry became the most iconic phrase of the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the persistent command that Black people wait—in the holds of slave ships and on auction blocks, in segregated bus...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Performance and American Cultures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 12 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Impatient to Be Free
- 1. One Hundred Years Later: The Unfinished Project of Emancipation
- 2. Black Time, Black Geography: The Free Southern Theater
- 3. Black Queer Time and the Erotics of the Civil Rights Body
- 4. Picturing White Impatience: Theatre and Visual Culture 181
- 5. Lunch Counters, Prisons, and the Radical Potential of Black Patience
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author