Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives

<p><em>Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives</em> is about the interconnectedness between collaboration spirit and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that draws upon shared lived experiences hopes and fears of two Black persons: male/female straight/gay. </p><p>This book is structured around a series of textual performances poems plays dialogues calls and responses and mediations that serve as claim ground warrant qualifier rebuttal and backing in an argument about collaborative spirit-writing for social justice. Each entry provides evidence of encounters of possibility collated between the authors for ourselves for readers and society from a standpoint of individual and collective struggle. The entries in this Black performance diary are at times independent and interdependent interspliced and interrogative interanimating and interstitial. They build arguments about collaboration but always emanate from a place of discontent in a caste system designed through slavery and maintained until today that positions Black people in relation to white superiority terror and perpetual struggle.</p><p>With particular emphasis on the confluence of Race Racism Antiracism Black Lives Matter the Trump administration and the Coronavirus pandemic this book will appeal to students and scholars in Race studies performance studies and those who practice qualitative methods as a new way of seeking Black social justice.</p>