Applied Theatre And Racial Justice Care Community Change | Theatre And Performance

Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care Community Change documents and amplifies lessons from practitioners and scholars who use performance to create models of transformation collective learning and liberation. The chapters and lively roundtable discussions center knowledge and cultural practices developed by Black Indigenous Asian Latine people of color and/or people of the global majority many of whom were doing this work long before applied theatre became an established field of academic study. Building upon frameworks such as Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed protest theatre anti-racist theatre practices and theatre for social change the contributors grapple with applied theatre and racial justice from various perspectives as they work towards mitigating and healing the harm caused by racial injustice. These unique essays provide sample exercises applicable principles pedagogical tools philosophical approaches and models for art-making and research. The range of writing styles includes personal narratives ethnographies theatre histories and case studies on topics such as Indigenous education Hip Hop activism anti-racist theatre women’s health artistic training ritual practices Black feminism state and systemic violence mental health dance and community organizing. Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care Community Change part of the Applied Theatre in Context series is essential reading for students educators and theatre practitioners in community academic and professional settings who wish to apply performance strategies to imagine and create more supportive ways of being in the world. This interdisciplinary book engages with a broad range of related fields including education civic engagement criminal justice sociology ecology and gender ethnicity and race studies. |Applied Theatre and Racial Justice Care Community Change | Theatre and Performance