Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. This book exami

Nicole R. Fleetwood explores how blackness is seen as a troubling presence in the field of vision and the black body is persistently seen as a problem. She exam

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Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many

How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film,