TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘We Wear the Mask’: Three Movements on Survival, Resistance, and Activist Affect with deference to Paul Laurence Dunbar
AU - Alexander, Bryant Keith
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1177/19408447221114832
DO - 10.1177/19408447221114832
M3 - Article
SN - 1940-8447
VL - 16
SP - 58
EP - 66
JO - International Review of Qualitative Research
JF - International Review of Qualitative Research
IS - 1
ER -