{"product_id":"9780813588513-black-movements","title":"Black Movements","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerformance and Cultural Politics. Analyses how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, Colbert offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and American studies. \u003cb\u003eReceived the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Movements\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and inclusive democracy. The post–Jim Crow, post–apartheid, postcolonial era has ushered in a purportedly color blind society and along with it an assault on race-based forms of knowledge production and coalition formation. Soyica Diggs Colbert argues that in the late twentieth century race went “underground,” and by the twenty-first century race no longer functioned as an explicit marker of second-class citizenship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The subterranean nature of race manifests itself in discussions of the Trayvon Martin shooting that focus on his hoodie, an object of clothing that anyone can choose to wear, rather than focusing on structural racism; in discussions of the epidemic proportions of incarcerated black and brown people that highlight the individual’s poor decision making rather than the criminalization of blackness; in evaluations of black independence struggles in the Caribbean and Africa that allege these movements have accomplished little more than creating a black ruling class that mirrors the politics of its former white counterpart. \u003ci\u003eBlack Movements\u003c\/i\u003e intervenes in these discussions by highlighting the ways in which artists draw from the past to create coherence about blackness in present and future worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through an exploration of the way that black movements create circuits connecting people across space and time, \u003ci\u003eBlack Movements\u003c\/i\u003e offers important interventions into performance, literary, diaspora, and African American studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40947969065057,"sku":"9780813588513","price":28.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/f706062703154361d2262dd1a2cd97f2.png?v=1694003993","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780813588513-black-movements","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}