Ayanna Thompson - BLACKFACE
Ayanna and I discuss her new book\xa0Blackface, her desire to encourage honest and sustained conversations about race, understanding the history of performing blackness and connecting these performances from Shakespeare to minstrel into one long arc, the need for the full rainbow of stories from black authors, the shocking number of blackface performances occurring in the 21st\xa0century, and much more.\nAyanna\u2019s recommended reads are:\n\nBeing Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man\xa0by Joshua Bennett\n\nIn the Wake: On Blackness and Being\xa0by Christina Sharpe\n\nBlack Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality\xa0by Jennifer C. Nash\n\n\nPlease take 3 minutes and nominate this podcast in the Society and Culture category of the Quill Podcast Awards here.\nSupport or sponsor an episode of the podcast here.\xa0\xa0\nIf you enjoyed this episode and want to listen to more, try Ty Seidule, Mateo Askaripour, Nancy Johnson, Anna Malaika Tubbs, and Bianca Marais.\nBlackface\xa0can be purchased at the Conversations from a Page Bookshop storefront.\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices