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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.
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.
Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black
Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration,
spirit, and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that
draws upon shared lived experiences, hopes, and fears of two Black
persons: male/female, straight/gay. This book is structured around
a series of textual performances, poems, plays, dialogues, calls
and responses, and mediations that serve as claim, ground, warrant,
qualifier, rebuttal, and backing in an argument about collaborative
spirit-writing for social justice. Each entry provides evidence of
encounters of possibility, collated between the authors, for
ourselves, for readers, and society from a standpoint of individual
and collective struggle. The entries in this Black performance
diary are at times independent and interdependent, interspliced and
interrogative, interanimating and interstitial. They build
arguments about collaboration but always emanate from a place of
discontent in a caste system, designed through slavery and
maintained until today, that positions Black people in relation to
white superiority, terror, and perpetual struggle. With particular
emphasis on the confluence of Race, Racism, Antiracism, Black Lives
Matter, the Trump administration, and the Coronavirus pandemic,
this book will appeal to students and scholars in Race studies,
performance studies, and those who practice qualitative methods as
a new way of seeking Black social justice.
Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black
Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration,
spirit, and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that
draws upon shared lived experiences, hopes, and fears of two Black
persons: male/female, straight/gay. This book is structured around
a series of textual performances, poems, plays, dialogues, calls
and responses, and mediations that serve as claim, ground, warrant,
qualifier, rebuttal, and backing in an argument about collaborative
spirit-writing for social justice. Each entry provides evidence of
encounters of possibility, collated between the authors, for
ourselves, for readers, and society from a standpoint of individual
and collective struggle. The entries in this Black performance
diary are at times independent and interdependent, interspliced and
interrogative, interanimating and interstitial. They build
arguments about collaboration but always emanate from a place of
discontent in a caste system, designed through slavery and
maintained until today, that positions Black people in relation to
white superiority, terror, and perpetual struggle. With particular
emphasis on the confluence of Race, Racism, Antiracism, Black Lives
Matter, the Trump administration, and the Coronavirus pandemic,
this book will appeal to students and scholars in Race studies,
performance studies, and those who practice qualitative methods as
a new way of seeking Black social justice.
Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the
Imagination-Intellect is a multi-authored, interdisciplinary
journey. It continues the work started in Public Education and the
Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2003) by extending the
importance of empathy in developing an action-based social
consciousness. Mary E. Weems doesn't argue for a specific way of
pursuing an empathy connected to mind, body, and spirit: She
acknowledges that just as artists work in various media, each with
their own process for sharing how they think and feel about a
particular topic or moment, each individual may arrive in their own
way at a deep, spiritual, close identification with the experiences
of the other. Writings of Healing and Resistance encompasses a
variety of forms: autoethnography, ethnodrama, poetic inquiry, and
critical essay, as well as scholars' work in a number of
disciplines including communications, cultural studies, sociology,
anthropology, educational leadership, African American studies, and
cultural foundations.
"Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect argues for
re-thinking the thinking process and for urban education reform.
Weems's work lives in the moment of creation. Her
imagination-intellect theory chapters frame this book; she posits
that the imagination and intellect are inextricably linked; that
like Freire's architect all ideas are first imagined, then
intellectually developed in an interconnected process that mirrors
the blood's circulation through the body. The two plays and the
collection of poems are rich, layered landscapes of African
American culture and meanings. They lend themselves to
multi-interpretation, co-performance, and co-ownership by each
audience member who engages the work.
Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the
Imagination-Intellect is a multi-authored, interdisciplinary
journey. It continues the work started in Public Education and the
Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2003) by extending the
importance of empathy in developing an action-based social
consciousness. Mary E. Weems doesn't argue for a specific way of
pursuing an empathy connected to mind, body, and spirit: She
acknowledges that just as artists work in various media, each with
their own process for sharing how they think and feel about a
particular topic or moment, each individual may arrive in their own
way at a deep, spiritual, close identification with the experiences
of the other. Writings of Healing and Resistance encompasses a
variety of forms: autoethnography, ethnodrama, poetic inquiry, and
critical essay, as well as scholars' work in a number of
disciplines including communications, cultural studies, sociology,
anthropology, educational leadership, African American studies, and
cultural foundations.
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