Dr. Julius Fleming visits the Segal Middle to debate his latest guide, Black Endurance: Efficiency, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Undertaking of Emancipation, which argues that, in the course of the Civil Rights Motion, Black artists and activists used theater to energise this radical refusal to attend. Taking part in a vibrant tradition of embodied political efficiency that ranged from marches and sit-ins to jail-ins and speeches, these artists turned to theater to unsettle a violent racial mission that Fleming refers to as “Black persistence.” This discuss shall be adopted by a dialog with Hillary Miller.

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Biographies:

Julius Fleming, Jr. is an Affiliate Professor of English on the College of Maryland, School Park, the place he additionally serves as Director of the English Honors Program. Specializing in Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures, he has pursuits in efficiency research, black political tradition, diaspora, and colonialism, particularly the place they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Fleming is the writer of Black Endurance: Efficiency, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Undertaking of Emancipation (NYU Press, 2022), which gained the Hooks Nationwide Ebook Award, acquired Honorable Mentions for each the John W. Frick and the Affiliation for the Examine of the Arts of the Current Ebook Prizes, and is a Finalist for the George Freedley Memorial Award and the Barnard Hewitt Award.

Hillary Miller teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century dramatic literature and efficiency within the English Division at Queens School, Metropolis College of New York and is an affiliate school member within the Theatre and Efficiency doctoral program on the Graduate Middle (CUNY). She has revealed essays and opinions on quite a few subjects associated to theater post-World Struggle II in the US, together with efficiency and concrete area; racial, ethnic, and geographic inequalities within the arts; activist theater traditions; and the politics of manufacturing. She is the writer of Drop Lifeless: Efficiency in Disaster, Nineteen Seventies New York (Northwestern College Press, 2016) and Playwrights on Tv: Conversations with Dramatists (Routledge, 2020).