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The Universal Machine
Artist/Author: Fred Moten | Reference: P4115 | ISBN: 978-0822370550 | Type: Publication

The concluding volume to Moten’s landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being.

Anthony Braxton blackness capture consciousness criticism Curtis Mayfield difference displacement Emmanuel Levinas falsetto Frantz Fanon freedom fugitivity Hannah Arendt imagination Immanuel Kant improvisation language pathological phenomenology Piet Mondrian politics racism regulation selfhood social life subjectivity theory voice William Kentridge

Stolen Life
Artist/Author: Fred Moten | Reference: P4114 | ISBN: 978-0822370581 | Type: Publication

The second volume of the landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being.

academic freedom aesthetics Africa biopolitics black black life blackness citizenship cosmopolitanism criminality Du Bois Immanuel Kant law music Nahum Chandler neurodiversity Olaudah Equiano pedagogy politics race racism radicalism resistance slavery social death sociality sovereignty state United States USA white supremacy writing

Points of Convergence - Alternative Views on Performance
Editor: Marta Dziewanska, Andre Lepecki | Reference: P4110 | ISBN: 978-8364177385 | Type: Publication

Investigates critical approaches to performance, ultimately aiming to stimulate new discussion between theorists and practitioners.

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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
Editor: Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, Johanna Burton | Reference: P4076 | ISBN: 9-780262-036603 | Type: Publication

Delves into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Jefferson Pinder and the Art of Black Endurance
Artist/Author: Isaiah Matthew Wooden | Reference: A0863 | Type: Article

On the work of Jefferson Pinder.

Ben Hur black black body black history blackness Corcoran Gallery of Art exploitation performance art race racism

Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
Artist/Author: Amber Jamilla Musser | Reference: P4027 | ISBN: 9781479830954 | Type: Publication

Works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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Black Performance Theory
Editor: Thomas F. DeFrantz and Anita Gonzalez | Reference: P4026 | ISBN: 978-0-8223-5616-5 | Type: Publication

Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
 

aesthetics Africa African American agency Anita Gonzalez Anna B. Scott authenticity Barack Obama black blackness body capitalism Carl Paris choreography criticism D. Soyini Madison dance Daphne A. Brooks diaspora economy embodiment ethnicity Hershini Bhana Young hip-hop history identity Jason King Jazz Koritha Mitchell labour live art lynching media Melissa Blanco Borelli Mexico Michael Jackson minstrel money music Nadine George-Graves Nina Simone performance politics queer race racism Reggie Wilson Rickerby Hinds Ronald K. Brown slavery Soyica Diggs Colbert Tavia Nyong'o theatre theory Thomas F. DeFrantz UK USA voice Wendy S. Walters

The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Artist/Author: Aileen Moreton-Robinson | Reference: P3793 | ISBN: 978-0816692163 | Type: Publication

Explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless.

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White Fragility: why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism
Artist/Author: Robin Diangelo | Reference: P3776 | ISBN: 978-0-8070-4741-5 | Type: Publication

Deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’” (Claudia Rankine).

activism anger blackness civil rights fear gender guilt politics race racial inequality racism white white supremacy white tears

Narratives in Black British Dance: Embodied Practices
Editor: Adesola Akinleye | Reference: P3775 | ISBN: 978-3-319-70313-8 | Type: Publication

Bringing together the voices of dance-artists, scholars, teachers and choreographers, the book looks at a range of performing arts from dancehall to ballet, providing valuable insights into dance theory, performance, pedagogy, identity and culture. 

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

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