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... performance choices. In the process, Outlaw contends that while Berserker prompts important discussions around race, it is not a political play. Berserker American history race gender sexuality ...

... for sport. He ultimately contends that the former and the latter embody a quintessential American masculinity for Outlaw and provide an opportunity to mediate on the politics of interracial desire. Nat Turner Jeffrey Dahmer American masculinity racial violence interracial desire This chapter...

... is the central theme of the play, she contends that the play “sits squarely in a Black theater tradition.” Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love love queerness Black theater ...

... In this chapter, John Keene interviews Dancin’ the Down Low creator Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. McCune discusses his intellectual and artistic trajectory and asserts that his performance work is a form of activism. He contends, for example, that DL men being blamed for the rise of new cases of HIV...

... Hall explores the concepts of creole and creolization, recounting the time shortly after he arrived in Britain when he immersed himself in the contending interpretations of the formation of post-enslaved cultures that had developed in Caribbean culture. He returns to “the African survival vs...

... relations, understandings, and forms of political participation institutionalized as “the state” emerge from contending projects of rule in different scalar dimensions. Finally, it asserts that understanding the entanglements of violence and capitalist processes is central to grasping the emergence...

... ultimately contends that the former and the latter embody a quintessential American masculinity for Outlaw and provide an opportunity to mediate on the politics of interracial desire. Nat Turner Jeffrey Dahmer American masculinity racial violence interracial desire ...

..., and accounting for its multiplication worldwide during the 1990s boom of art biennials. The chapter contextualizes this phenomenon of expansion amid the geopolitical crisis that followed the end of the Cold War, to contend that early-boom art biennials helped reinforce US and Western European hegemony worldwide...

... In this chapter, Matt Richardson employs an ethnographic perspective to examine Sharon Bridgforth’s The love conjure/blues Text installation . He contends that the jazz aesthetic, an artistic practice that encourages layering of images, ideas, sound, and experiences, informs Bridgforth’s...

..., and it delineates the ways in which early-boom art biennials contributed to present curatorial paradigms. Finally, this chapter contends that the many biennial conversions of the early biennial boom helped produce “global contemporary art,” a category that consists of art made within the relations of production...

... This essay re-reads key events in genomic and postgenomic history in terms of affect, exploring a dimension of the emergence of postgenomics often neglected in the epistemological, technological, or organizational approaches used by historians as indices of change. The essay contends...

... contends that Machos misses an opportunity to more fully interrogate the heteropatriarchal logics on which sexual and gender binaries rest. Machos gender and sexuality drag performance race musical performance ...

... This essay contends that the concepts of bare life and biopolitics severely limit how we understand current uneven global power structures and foreclose the possibility of their abolition. Bare life and biopolitics discourse not only misconstrues the deep anchoring of race and racism...

... and that Žižek provides us with tools and methodologies to undertake such a reading. The focal point is Žižek’s reading of Christianity and the possibility of its repetition on Islam. The reading that Žižek provides of Christianity can be repeated, not copied, in reading Islam. The chapter contends that Žižek...