Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson PhD Presents:
Deconstructing Race: Film, Theater, and Performance
This lecture gives a sampler of a larger 4 session course that examines a brief but robust history of how racial thinking was constructed through racialized performance from antiquity (ancient Nubia, Greece, Kemet, & Rome) to the present day.
The 4 sessions this lecture is based on are:
Session 1: Introduction What is Blackness?- The Evolutions and Movement of Racial Thinking from Antiquity to the Renaissance/Early Modern Period
Session 2: Blackface Minstrelsy in North America
Session 3: Passing and Racial Performance Off Stage
Session 4: What is Blackness? What Are We Even Talking About Anymore?
Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson is an artist and scholar who writes, choreographs, and directs story ballets for film. As a scholar, Jehbreal researches the histories and theories of ballet, ritual dances of the African diaspora, music, and race. She uses her findings as source material for her own artistic creations.
