Theatre TIMMar 24, 20195 min readWhat is this "Black"?In 1993 in the academic journal called Social Justice, Jamaican-British scholar Stuart Hall published an article titled "What Is This...
Theatre TIMFeb 20, 20192 min readMy personal politics of "passing"Today in Black Dramatic Theory we got into discussions of shadism and the politics of color both within black spaces and outside of them....
Theatre TIMFeb 19, 20193 min readWhere are the black musical theatre writers?We read In Dahomey, a musical comedy from 1902, with music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A. Shipp, and lyrics by poet Paul Laurence...
Theatre TIMFeb 19, 20195 min readAnansi and Other Tales that challenge the Western Theatre NarrativeI am currently taking a class on Black Dramatic Theory. From the first day in class I felt like I'd walked into the kind of academic...