THT 3003 - Performance Of Race & Rebellion

Credit(s) 3

The course explores the construction and practices of race in 19th century America through the lens of performance. The course will provide general background on performance studies, the construction of race, the institution and practice of slavery, abolitionism, the role of race in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the development of Jim Crow laws and culture. Particular attention will be paid to cultural representations of African, slave, plantation, and abolitionist cultures, including both white and black minstrelsy, and the many staged interpretations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin throughout the century. Another focus will be the cultural dialogue (from sermons to lynchings) generated by 1.) two notable race-centered rebellions, Nat Turner’s and John Brown’s, 2.) the radical attempts to overturn racial roles through Reconstruction, 3.) the initial rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the creation of a revisionist history of the Confederacy, and 4.) the rationale for and institutionalization of social and legal Jim Crow concepts by century’s end.

Prerequisites
ENG 1020
Course Frequency:
Intermittently

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