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Author of Black Patience Speaks on His Hooks National Book Award Winning Work

Julius B. Fleming, Jr., author of 2022 Hooks National Book Award winner "Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation" speaks on the importance of his book in furthering our understanding of the civil rights movement and its legacy. In Black Patience, Julius B. Fleming Jr. argues that, during the Civil Rights Movement, Black artists and activists used theater to energize this radical refusal to wait. Participating in a vibrant culture of embodied political performance that ranged from marches and sit-ins to jail-ins and speeches, these artists turned to theater to unsettle a violent racial project that Fleming refers to as “Black patience.” Inviting the likes of James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Douglas Turner Ward, Duke Ellington, and Oscar Brown Jr. to the stage, Black Patience illuminates how Black artists and activists of the Civil Rights era used theater to expose, critique, and repurpose structures of white supremacy. In this bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement, Fleming contends that Black theatrical performance was a vital technology of civil rights activism, and a crucial site of Black artistic and cultural production. The Hooks National Book Award is presented annually to a non-fiction book that best furthers understanding of the civil rights movement and its legacy. For more information visit https://www.memphis.edu/benhooks/prog... © The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. Use is permitted for shares through social media, private online viewing and online viewing for classroom instruction. Use of this film, in whole or in part, for public screenings, for profit, publication, or in any other manner not expressly stated herein is prohibited without the expressed written consent of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. Please contact [email protected] for more information.