Understanding Blackness through Performance: Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity

How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, while recognizing that they have sometimes maintained the mechanisms of violence against blacks.

Zakiya R. Adair, University of Missouri, USA Gayle Baldwin, University of North Dakota, USA Myron M. Beasley, Bates College, USA Simon Dickel, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Vanina Géré, University Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France Mae G. Henderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Kristin Leigh Moriah, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA James Smalls, University of Maryland, USA Stephany Spaulding, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Toniesha L. Taylor, Prairie View A & M University, USA Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto, Canada