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Description
In this article, I analyze performing objects that were attributed to the agency of Black spirits within the 19th-century American spiritualist movement, exposing how white, female spirit mediums supported and tested a racial metaphysics that assumed white transcendence and Black materiality.
Publication Date
2023
Publisher
University Of Connecticut
City
Storrs
Keywords
representation, race and ethnicity, Channeling (Spiritualism)—History—19th century, matter—philosophy
Disciplines
African American Studies | Arts and Humanities | Other Theatre and Performance Studies | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Recommended Citation
Rickards, Hazel, "Matter’s “Dark” Powers: Performing Objects and Racialization in Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism" (2023). Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects. Edited by John Bell, Matthew Isaac Cohen, and Jungmin Song.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/ballinst_alterity/3
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