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• Title:Black patience : performance, civil rights, and the unfinished project of emancipation / Julius B. Fleming Jr.
  
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• Author/Creator:Fleming, Julius B., Jr., author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : New York University Press, [2022]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN2270.A35 F54 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:African American theater--History--20th century.
  African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
  Time--Philosophy--History--20th century.
  Theater and society--United States--History--20th century.
  United States--Race relations--20th century.
  
• Description:301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Performance and American cultures.
  
• Summary:"This book argues that, since transatlantic slavery, patience has been used as a tool of anti-black violence and political exclusion, but shows how during the Civil Rights Movement black artists and activists used theatre to demand "freedom now," staging a radical challenge to this deferral of black freedom and citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781479806829 hardcover
  147980682X hardcover
  9781479806843 paperback
  1479806846 paperback
  9781479806850 electronic book
  9781479806874 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. One Hundred Years Later: The Unfinished Project of Emancipation
  2. Black Time, Black Geography: The Free Southern Theater
  3. Black Queer Time and the Erotics of the Civil Rights Body
  4. Picturing White Impatience: Theatre and Visual Culture
  5. Lunch Counters, Prisons, and the Radical Potential of Black Patience.