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Title: The Performative Sustainability of Race

The Performative Sustainability of Race

Reflections on Black Culture and the Politics of Identity

by Bryant Keith Alexander (Author)
©2012 Textbook VIII, 218 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: Black Studies and Critical Thinking, Volume 19

Summary

Following the premise that race and the process of racialization is performative, this book is a critical examination of the performative sustainability of race, particularly blackness, through commentaries on White Studies, art depictions of African American culture in the rural south, educational and pedagogical contexts, dramatic and film representation, and the intersections of race and gender performance. The book examines issues impacting the sustainability of race and race relations through multiple methodological and critical perspectives – most notably framed through performance (performance studies) and autoethnography.

Details

Pages
VIII, 218
Year
2012
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433112843
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433112836
Language
English
Keywords
racialization gender performance film
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012. VIII, 218 pp., num. ill.

Biographical notes

Bryant Keith Alexander (Author)

Bryant Keith Alexander PhD, Professor in Department of Communication Studies and Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. He is the coeditor of Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity with education scholars Gary L. Anderson and Bernardo P. Gallegos and the author of Performing Black Masculinity: Race, Culture, and Queer Identity. His scholarly works are included a wide range of journals and book volumes including Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies; Handbook of Performance Studies; Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition; Blackwell Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication; Handbook of Communication and Instruction and Handbook of Autoethnography.

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