Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet

Qualitative Inquiries on Race, Gender, Sexualities, and Culture
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-22816-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Reihe: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry

Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet promotes the importance of intergenerational Black dialogue as a collaborative spirit-making across race, genders, sexualities, and cultures to bridge time and space.

The authors enter this dialogue in a crisis moment: a crisis moment at the confluence of a pandemic, the national political transition of leadership in the United States, the necessary rise of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color activism—in the face of the continued murders of unarmed Black and queer people by police. And as each author mourns the loss of loved ones who have left us through illness, the contiguity of time, or murder, we all hold tight to each other and to memory as an act of keeping them alive in our hearts and actions, remembrance as an act of resistance so that the circle will be unbroken. But they also come together in the spirit of hope, the hope that bleeds the borders between generations of Black teacher-artist-scholars, the hope that we find in each other’s joy and laughter, and the hope that comes when we hear both stories of struggle and strife and stories of celebration and smile that lead to possibilities and potentialities of our collective being and becoming—as a people.

So, the authors offer stories of witness, resistance, and gettin’ ovah, stories that serve as a road map from Black history and heritage to a Black futurity that is mythic and imagined but that can also be actualized and embodied, now. This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and activists in a wide range of disciplines across the social sciences and performance studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, Bryant Keith

Weems, Mary E.

Hill, Dominique C.

Callier, Durell M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Performative Intergenerational Dialogues: An Introduction, Section I: Tribute and Libation to A Black Quartet, 1. Generational Drama/Intergenerational Trauma, 2. When You Hear It From Her, 3. "I Wish Cotton was a Monkey", 4. "And the Protest Goes On.", Section II: Motha/ Sista and Fatha/Brotha Wit: Listening to the Lessons, 5. Motha Wit, 6. Fatha Wit (or Brotha Wit), 7. I Affirm, 8. "Reading (to/for) Daddee"; Section III. Letters to Those Who Mattered, 9. To Daddee (Love, Keith), 10. Dear Grandpa (Love, Cookie), 11. What Becomes (Possible) When a Black Woman Sees You: A Gratitude Meditation for Mama Crystal, 12. A Praisesong to Softness: Reflecting on Soft Black Masculinities and Survival, 13. A Tribute to Franklin: A Comic Appreciation, Section IV: Monuments of Memory and Remorse, 14. Monuments to Living (or Finding and Reviving the Dead in a Graveyard), 15. Rice: A Visit to a 12-Year-Old Black Boy’s Memorial, 16. The First Time., 17. Going There, 18. High Bar Love, 19. Standing at the Intersection of 38th Street E and Chicago Avenue S, Section V: B(l)ack Talk, 20. April 20, 2021: On Luther and Chauvin, 21. Trilogy of Terror on the Black Hand Side, 22. Feel/Think the Kink: A Dialogue with Jubi Arriola-Headley’s Original Kink, 23. Spell Casting as Talking Back, 24. Admirable or Ridiculous: Talkin Black, Back, & Between Kin Folk, 25. Feeling Real: Reprise (Talking B[l]ack to a Younger Brother), Section VI: Voting Rights and Writing Volition, 26. Why Did Black People Vote for Trump?, 27. Another Prayer Meeting, 28. We are the People (July 4, 2021), 29. What’s the Matter? (A Play), 30. The Will to Love: Dialogues on Loving Blackness in an Anti-Black World, 31. A Letter to Process, Positionality, and Possibility, Performative Intergenerational Dialogues: A Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Bryant Keith Alexander is a professor and dean in the College of Communication and Fine Arts and an interim dean in the School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University, USA. He is coauthor of Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstrict Racism and Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives.

Mary E. Weems is a poet, playwright, scholar, and author of 14 books, including Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues and five chapbooks. Weems was awarded a 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize for her full-length drama MEAT and has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is coauthor of Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstrict Racism and Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives. Weems may be reached at www.maryeweems.org.

Dominque C. Hill, PhD, is a creative and vulnerability guide whose scholarship interrogates Black embodiment with foci in Black girlhood, education, and performance. An artist-scholar, Hill is an assistant professor of Women’s Studies at Colgate University and is the coauthor of Who look at me?!: Shifting the Gaze of Education Through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body.

Durell M. Callier, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University. An artist-scholar, he researches and interrogates the lived experience of Black youth and the racialized queer dynamics of power within educative spaces. He is coauthor of Who look at me?!: Shifting the Gaze of Education Through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body.