Blacktino Queer Performance
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, also published by Duke University Press.
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics.
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, also published by Duke University Press.
Ramón H. Rivera-Servera is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and the author of Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics.
This chapter features D. Soyini Madison’s interview with Cuban Hustle creator Cedric Brown. Madison and Brown discuss the political implications of the play’s depictions of black gay male sexuality and U.S.-Cuban relations. Brown ultimately asserts that the play is a metaphor for the relationship between the United States and Cuba.
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