Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, DeRon S. Williams (Loyola University Chicago, USA), Khalid Y. Long (University of Georgia, USA), and Martine Kei Green-Rogers (DePaul University, USA)
PART I: STAGE AS A SITE OF RADICAL POSSIBILITIES
1. Sweat Equity: Lynn Nottage's Radical Dialectic of Deindustrialization, Jocelyn L. Buckner (Chapman University, USA)
2. "Those Songs Were More than Just": Spirituals, Queer Reckonings and Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, Isaiah Matthew Wooden (Swarthmore College, USA)
3. Trauma, Truth, and Turning the Lens: Black Theater Artists and White Theater Audiences, Suzanne Delle, (York College of Pennsylvania, USA), and Loretta Brady (Saint Anselm College, USA)
In The Trenches: A Conversation with Christina Anderson, DeRon S. Williams (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
PART II: PERFORMANCE IN THE MAKING
4. Re-Writing the Declaration: Healing In Theater From A Black, Queer, Feminist Lens, Quenna Barrett (NYU Steinhardt, USA)
5. ineffable dramaturgies: Experiments in Black Queer and Trans Liberation On and Off Stage, s.e. callender (Independent Scholar/Artist, Canada)
6. Reconsidering and Recasting, Ray Proctor (Tulane University, USA)
7. We are the Canon: Anti-Racist Theatre Pedagogy, Maya Johnson (Independent Scholar and Practitioner, USA), Daphnie Sicre (Loyola Marymount University, USA), and Karl O'Brian Williams (NYU, USA)
In The Trenches: A Conversation with Donja R. Love, Martine Kei Green-Rogers (DePaul University, USA)
PART III: PERFORMANCE AND/AS PROTEST
8. (W)right Of Way: Black Geographies and American Interstates, Jenny Henderson (Tufts University, USA)
9. Honk for Justice, Jocelyn Prince (Northwestern University, USA), and Harvey Young (Boston University, USA)
10. Serena Williams' Sonic Refusal, Leticia Ridley (Santa Clara University, USA)
11. Cancel Culture, Digital Blackface, and Internalized Anti-Blackness, Aviva Helen Neff (Columbus College of Art and Design, USA)
In The Trenches: A Conversation with Willa J. Taylor, Khalid Y. Long (University of Georgia, USA)
Bibliography
Index