The Americanist Colloquium, American Studies, African American Studies: Performing Race: A Symposium

Event time: 
Saturday, December 2, 2017 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC ), 319 See map
63 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

How is racial identity performed? How are racial formations contested, manipulated, or confounded through performance? Professors Uri McMillan, Karen Shimakawa, and Patricia Ybarra, three leading scholars of theater and performance studies, will present their recent work examining the ways racial and national identity have been constituted on stage or via other performance media, with Patricia Ybarra focusing on anti-neoliberal indigenous performances, Karen Shimakawa on representations of Asian-Americanness as the abject other to American national identity, and Uri McMillan on African-American women performers’ techniques of self-objectification. Following their talks, Professor Joseph Roach will lead a conversation on themes and concerns common to all three.

Support provided by the Trumbull Lectureship and the Office of the Secretary and Vice President for Student Life

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