THR 225 - Race & Performance

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.
Meets Explore Core requirement (students beginning Fall 2024 and later): RP
This course will consider multiple forms of contemporary performance (including theatre, performance art, visual art, and pop culture) by artists of color, alongside writings on performance and race, to think about belonging and alternative forms of world-making. This course will ask: what difference might it make to think of race as performative? How might the analytic of performance equip us to identify and enact anti-racist and anti-xenophobic strategies for everyday practice? This course will engage foundational texts to performance studies and offer an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship in critical ethnic studies and race theory, gender and sexuality studies, and performance studies.