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SUMMARY:A Blueswoman Matters: Re-Visioning Blueswoman Performance in a (post?) COVID era
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Maisha Akbar examines blueswoman performance tradition as a 
 means through which Black women expressed their stories of systematic 
 oppression including economic exploitation\, gender and race discrimination 
 and broken romantic love. Although blueswomen are often characterized as 
 working-class women who unapologetically broke norms\, Dr. Akbar ties the 
 blueswoman performance tradition to that of intellectual club women of the 
 early 20th century who wrote anti -lynching (dramatic) literature. Like the 
 music of Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and Bessie Smith\, the cultural 
 production of Harlem Renaissance writers Angelina Weld Grimke and Georgia 
 Douglas Johnson suffers from under examination for the ways it diverges 
 from respectability politics\, or societal gender norms. Anti-lynching 
 playwrights depict Black women as overworked\, mentally and physically 
 ailing and underpaid. For these women\, systematic racism and sexism 
 subjects them and the children for whom they love and care to cruelty\, 
 violence and death. Like the under- and un- employed\, overworked Black 
 women depicted in anti-lynching plays\, Black women in Peach County 
 Georgia\, where Fort Valley State University is located\, struggled on the 
 front lines of the battle against COVID-19.\n\nIn June 2020\, Black women 
 in Peach County comprised the ENTIRE total number of coronavirus deaths. 
 Even further\, Black women positions as essential workers in roles as 
 custodians\, teachers\, principals and lower division undergraduate 
 instructors further subjected them to unsafe conditions. COVID-19 (re) 
 revealed systematic race-based health disparities\, economic precarity and 
 disproportionate death for Black women. Presently\, the blueswoman 
 performance tradition is currently re-visioned through the contemporary 
 television screenplays of Katori Hall (a Memphis\, TN native) the stage 
 plays and show of Atlanta singer/celebrity Kandi Burress as well as Tyler 
 Perry’s masquerade films. Dr. Akbar will briefly examine the cultural 
 production of these artists to trace the cross generational reproduction of 
 blueswoman performance.\n\nJoin Meeting: https://fb.me/e/63EI8Hk3R
LOCATION:Museum Education Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Evan Leavitt":MAILTO:evan.leavitt@gcsu.edu
CATEGORIES:Exhibit, Gallery Talk
CONTACT;CN="Evan Leavitt":MAILTO:evan.leavitt@gcsu.edu
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