I really enjoyed our conversation on Thursday! You all made some fantastic arguments regarding Bill T. Jones's work and how it draws on other cultural productions, situating contemporary constructions of blackness in relation to histories of violence, productions of gender, and the role of visual culture in it all. Below are some links if you're interested in further exploring the topics from last week:
Opening sequence from the Albert and Allen Hughes's film Menace II Society (1993)
Trailer for Menace II Society
Transcripts and Descriptions of the 9 Lincoln-Douglas debates
Bill T. Jones speech about Lincoln and the making of Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently We Do Pray
Video of Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech in Philadelphia (2008)
Transcript of Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech
Gary Wills's "Two Speeches on Race": An analysis of Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech and Lincoln's speech at Cooper Union in 1860
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company website
Trailer for Bill T. Jones's Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently We Do Pray
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