Module 4- Atlantic/Pacific/Black/White/Other

This module explores intersecting histories of racial formation in the Atlantic and Pacific troubling the black-white binary by exploring the intersecting histories of other racial groups. How might you see racial performance as what Shannon Steen calls "a kind of geometry to measure the Earth; a way to take stock of America's place in the world" (2010,70). As you post your blogs this week, what examples might you offer on contemporary performance that reflect the shifting racial formation in the United States in our so called "post-racial" moment?

Module 3- Disrupting the Black-White BInary

During this Module we explored texts that challenged the black-white binary that shapes the American racial imaginary. By interrogating places of intersection, overlap and omission between and within theories of racial formation, our readings and performance reflected shifting perspectives of race over time and the limitations inherent in theories of raciology (Gilroy) when we read them within a transnational socio-economic and historical framework. How are scholars and artists interrogating shifting definitions of blackness and whiteness over time? What do we make of the multivalent and conflicting language used to describe race, its ascription to particular groups and its regulation by the state? How might cross-racial performance and transnational comparisons of racial formations foster social, cultural and political connections between and within communities that can enable new ways of thinking about race and ethnicity?