{"product_id":"still-hanging-using-performance-texts-to-deconstruct-racism-9789004464841","title":"Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe current socio-political climate in the United States sheds a critical, glaring light on the racism and white supremacy which has been part of the fabric of this country since the seventeenth century. Barack Obama’s tenure as president resulted in a major increase in white hate groups, hate crimes, and unrelenting violence against innocent Black men and women by police. In response, people of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, religions, ages and classes have taken to the streets in protest, and increased decades long efforts to organize against racism and for a more empathetic, just, democratic society. Social change about racism must begin with acknowledgement followed by open, focused, critical dialogue.    Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism, referencing both the resilience of Black people in the face of institutionalized racism and systemic oppression, and the fact that Black people continue to be literally and metaphorically lynched in 2020, is designed to use the power of lived experience specific performance texts as frames for engaging faculty, students and others interested in beginning to deconstruct racism and construct an anti-racist way of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Message about Cover Art  List of Figures  About the Authors    Introduction    PART 1: Sounds of Blackness  1 Still Hanging\/On: ‘Strange Fruit’ and ‘Glory’ — Songs of\/as\/in Protest: Or, from Stage to Page: Documenting Ideological Performance   Bryant Keith Alexander    Interlude 1: On Blackouts and Black Notes   Bryant Keith Alexander    2 Black Notes   Mary E. Weems    Interlude 2: Confluences of Pain   Bryant Keith Alexander    3 Let the People See What They Did to My Child   Mary E. Weems    4 George Floyd’s Mama   Mary E. Weems    5 Wendy’s, Me, and Rayshard Brooks: Another Black Man Killed (June 12, 2020)   Bryant Keith Alexander    6 Where’s the Beef?   Mary E. Weems    Interlude 3: A Moment of Prayer   Bryant Keith Alexander    7 Three Meditations on Prayer and Particularity: Or: On Black Mothers, Social Justice, and Queering Catholicism   Bryant Keith Alexander    Interlude 4: Courageous Conversations   Bryant Keith Alexander    8 Three Conversations   Mary E. Weems    Interlude 5: Trigger Warnings   Bryant Keith Alexander    Interlude 6: Bamboozled   Mary E. Weems    9 Eat Fresh   Mary E. Weems    10 Not a Fan Letter: Or, Trigger Warning: An Autoethnographic Rant on Jussie Smollett   Bryant Keith Alexander    Interlude 7: Hanging Chads?   Bryant Keith Alexander    PART 2: Bodies on the Line  11 Attached?   Mary E. Weems    12 Still Hanging?   Bryant Keith Alexander    Interlude 8: A Crack in My Heart   Bryant Keith Alexander    13 Crack the Door for Some Air   Mary E. Weems    PART 3: Black\/White Double Consciousness  14 Is There a White Double Consciousness? A Short Dialogue   Mary E. Weems and Bryant Keith Alexander    Study Questions, Prompts, and Probes   Bryant Keith Alexander    Notes for Teachers, Faculty, and Facilitators on Establishing a Learning Community   Mary E. Weems    Bibliography and Further Reading","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210824114519,"sku":"9789004464841","price":120.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/still-hanging-using-performance-texts-to-deconstruct-racism-9789004464841","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}