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

Explores expressions of Blackness in Hip-Hop performance by non-African American artists

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

Nina Simone's quadruple consciousness -- Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, the state, and the stage -- The radical ambivalence of Günther Kaufmann -- The Cockett

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