Authors

Hazel Rickards

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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

Matter’s “Dark” Powers: Performing Objects and Racialization in Nineteenth-Century American Spiritualism

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