Spotlights spectacular acts of racial violence--from police stops (racial profiling) to lynching campaigns--and shows how African American men and women have employed performance to respond to the intrusion of such events within their daily lives. Masterful
Spotlights spectacular acts of racial violence—from police stops (racial profiling) to lynching campaigns—and shows how African American men and women have employed performance to respond to the intrusion of such events within their daily lives. Masterfully blending biography, archival history, performance theory, and phenomenology, Young centres selected artistic and athletic performances as lenses through which to gain access to the lived experiences of a variety of individuals.
