The choreography of Jim Crow : race, performance, and the politics of touch
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Abstract: Considering the critical methods of performance studies, critical race studies, and sensorial studies, The Choreography of Jim Crow analyzes the creation of social identities through the rubric of touch—a tactile sensibility that provides a cultural foundation for the misperception of bodies as racialized subjects. This project approaches touch as a performative act that is both meaningful and with consequence. Specifically attending to the early 20th century historical period of Jim Crow because of its deeply held investments in the politics of separateness, this project asks: how do bodies become racially affirmed through the course of interaction? The 1896 landmark legal case Plessy vs. Ferguson, and the ensuing Supreme Court decision, upheld the constitutionality of individual states rights to racially segregate public facilities—under the now infamous "separate but equal" mandate—affirming the relationship between proximity and equality. Taking up tactility as a cultural system used to mark bodies as raced, The Choreography of Jim Crow employs literary and performance texts from the Jim Crow era to engage forms of power that have historically gone under-examined in relationship to racial politics. Through the tracing of a sensorial legacy of racial formation predicated on contact, The Choreography of Jim Crow grapples with the very present ways that American society underestimates the social, political, and cultural power that touch wields in our understanding of social identities.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Farr Schiller, Angela M |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Primary advisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Brody, Jennifer DeVere |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Michele |
| Thesis advisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Advisor | Brody, Jennifer DeVere |
| Advisor | Elam, Michele |
| Advisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Angela M. Farr Schiller. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Angela Michelle Farr Schiller
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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