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Enacting Justice: Legal Performance in the Civil Rights Era

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Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2015 · Education

Paige McGinley studies performance – how our ways of making meaning in the world are fundamentally tied to gesture, movement, and embodiment. Author of a study on blues performance from tent shows to tourism, McGinley has now turned her eye to the role of performance – in courtrooms, nonviolent protests, and theaters – during the long battle for civil rights for African Americans. This crucial period in our nation’s history looks new, and newly powerful, through McGinley’s lens.

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