Embodying Black experience
Subtitle: stillness, critical memory, and the Black body
By: Harvey Young.
Series: Theater: theory/text/performance
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780472071111; 9780472051113
Subjects: African Americans -- Race identity; African Americans in popular culture; African Americans in art; Human body -- Social aspects; Body image -- Social aspects; Anthropometry -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Still standing : daguerreotypes, photography, and the Black body; title: Between the ropes : staging the Black body in American boxing; title: Touching history : staging Black experience; title: Housing the memory of racial violence : Black body as souvenir, museum, and living remain.