‘We Wear the Mask’: Three Movements on Survival, Resistance, and Activist Affect with deference to Paul Laurence Dunbar

Bryant Keith Alexander

doi:10.1177/19408447221114832

‘We Wear the Mask’: Three Movements on Survival, Resistance, and Activist Affect with deference to Paul Laurence Dunbar

Bryant Keith Alexander

Communication Studies

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Abstract

In this short performative piece, the performer engages a critical juxtaposition of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s classic poem, “We Wear the Mask” in relation to shifting currents of COVID-19, Racism, and Black Lives Matter; using the act of masking not just as a safety precaution against COVID-19 but as strategies of passing through oppression, and surviving under threat, with de-masking as a performative act of resistance against that which most threatens our humanity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	58-66
Journal	International Review of Qualitative Research
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447221114832
State	Published - Jan 1 2022

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