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Podcast: New Books in African American Studies
Episode: Carrie J. Preston, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Description: In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complicit participation and that of other audience members and theater professionals, deftly examining the prevailing framework through which white liberals participate in antiracist theater and institutional âdiversity, equity, and inclusionâ initiatives. Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice (Oxford UP, 2024) addresses immersive, documentary, site-specific, experimental, street, and popular theatre in chapters on Jean Genetâs The Blacks, Branden Jacobs-Jenkinsâs An Octoroon, George C. Wolfeâs Shuffle Along, Lin-Manuel Mirandaâs Hamilton, Anna Deavere Smith...