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Racism

Film Review: Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”—A Long and Sexy Sermon

Chi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Amazon, Chi-Raq, David D'Arcy, Racism, Spike Lee, Teyonah Parris

Stage Interview: Dramatist Jacqui Parker Talks About How Black Lives Matter: “A Crack in the Blue Wall”

“Theater producers do not want to make their audience members uncomfortable and talking about race makes folks uncomfortable.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: A Crack in the Blue Wall, Hibernian Hall, Jacqui Parker, Racism

Theater Review: “appropriate” — Southern Gothic, Entertainingly Deconstructed

In appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: African-American, appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, M. Bevin O'Gara, Racism, Southern history, SpeakEasy Stage Company

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Zebra in the Room

Much more work could be done fertilizing the fields of cross-cultural music, sowing seeds collected from the great touchstones of American culture – innovation, integration, risk, reward.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: African-America, Dana Suesse, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Gunther Schuller, JIPC jazz-influenced piano concerto, minstrel, Racism

Book Review: “Shame” — Racism and the Sins of Paternalistic Liberalism

According to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: America, liberals, Racism, Shame, Shelby Steele, white liberalism

Theater Commentary: The Irrelevance of ‘Relevant’ Theater

Where are the theaters that are bold enough to stage challenging and risky dramas about race? Not just talk the talk.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: Racism, theater about race, To Kill a Mockingbird, Trinity Repertory

Visual Arts Review: “Figures of Empire” — When Racism and Art Meet

Some fifty-five objects trace a legacy of casual brutality and white hegemony that is at the heart of Yale University’s—and this nation’s—founding.

By: Tim Barry Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: British art, Figures of Empire, Racism, Tim Barry, Yale Center for British Art

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