Following the premise that race and the process of racialization is performative this book is
a critical examination of the performative sustainability of race particularly blackness
through commentaries on White Studies art depictions of African American culture in the rural
south educational and pedagogical contexts dramatic and film representation and the
intersections of race and gender performance. The book examines issues impacting the
sustainability of race and race relations through multiple methodological and critical
perspectives - most notably framed through performance (performance studies) and
autoethnography.
