
Keynote Address: "Black Performance, Activism, and the Persistence of Crisis"
by Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity
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Drawing from Dr. Fleming’s award-winning book, Black Patience (NYU Press, 2022), this talk, entitled "Black Performance, Activism, and the Persistence of Crisis," will reexamine the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater, revealing how Black artists and activists used theater to expose, critique, and repurpose structures of white supremacy. Illuminating the vibrant culture of embodied political performance that ranged from marches and sit-ins to jail-ins and speeches, Fleming will demonstrate the ways in which theater was not only a crucial site of Black artistic and cultural production, but also a critical tool in the urgent pursuit of liberation.
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