Black Like Me: Reconfiguring Blackface in the Art of Glenn Ligon and Fred Wilson

Peter Erickson, Visiting Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is author of Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art (2007), Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves (1991), and Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare’s Drama (1985), and co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Othello (2005), Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England (2000), and Shakespeare’s “Rough Magic” (1985).