The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes Birth of the Cool Page 3: Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser, directed by Charlotte Zwerin. Malpreso Productions, 1988. Page 5: James Baldwin, from “Uses of the Blues.” Playboy, October 1964. Fawlanionese Page 13: Michael Faraday, from “The Chemical History of the Candle .” Fordham University, Modern History Sourcebook, 1860. Fade to White Page 29: from Northern Great Lakes 2009: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Mobil Travel Guide. Page 29: from “Who Is a Negro? The Inside Story of Two Million Negroes Who Passed for White,” Negro Digest 4.12 (October 1946). Page 30: Nuruddin Farah, from Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora. London: Cassell, 2000. Page 30: Jon Holtzman, from Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000. Page 31: Charles William Isenberg, from Dictionary of the Amharic Language . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1971. Page 32: Fanny Howe, from The Winter Sun. St. Paul: Graywolf, 2009. Page 32: James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, from A Rap on Race. London : Corgi Books, 1971. Page 33: Nella Larsen, from An Intimation of Things Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella Larsen. New York: Anchor Books, 1992. Page 35: Leopold Sedar Senghor, from Prose and Poetry, with John O. Reed and Clive Wake. London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 126 Notes The Strongman and the Clown Page 44: Victor B. Scheffer, from The Year of the Whale. New York: Scribner, 1969. Page 49: Hal Whitehead, from Voyage to the Whales. Post Mills, VT: Chelsea Green, 1990. Page 51: Costanzo Costantini, from Conversations with Fellini. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995. Silencing Cassandra Page 55: Darcus Howe, from a BBC interview, August 9, 2011. Page 55: Henry Louis Gates Jr., from “Black London.” Antioch Review 34.3 (Spring 1976). Page 56: P. J. Harvey, from Let England Shake. Vagrant Records, 2011. Page 56: P. J. Harvey, from an interview with Dorian Lynskey for the Guardian, April 23, 2011. Page 56: Anne Carson, from “The Gender of Sound,” in Glass, Irony and God. New York: New Directions Books, 1992. Page 60: Joseph Chaikin, from The Presence of the Actor. New York: Theater Communications Group, 1972. Page 61: from Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae, by David Katz. New York: Bloomsbury, 2003. Page 61: Armet Francis, from Henry Louis Gates Jr., “Black London .” Antioch Review 34.3 (Spring 1976). Page 64: R. D. Laing, from The Politics of Experience. New York: Pantheon Books, 1967. Page 66: Mike Davis, from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Page 66: Paula B. Johnson, David O. Sears, and John B. McConahay, from “Black Invisibility: The Press, and the Los Angeles Riot.” American Journal of Sociology 76.4 ( January 1971). Page 68: An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles, Orestes by Euripedes, trans. Anne Carson. New York: Faber and Faber, 2009. Page 68: Les Black, from “Voices of Hate, Sounds of Hybridity: Black Music and the Complexities of Racism.” Black Music Research Journal 20.2 (Autumn 2000). Page 68: Klive Walker, from Dubwise: Reasoning from the Reggae Underground . Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2005. Notes 127 Page 69: “Dread Beat an’ Blood,” by Poet and The Roots, produced by the dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, 1978. Page 72: Patrick Barkham and Jon Henle, from “Mark Duggan: Pro- file of Tottenham Police Shooting Victim.” Guardian, August 8, 2011. Page 74: Fred Moten, from “Black Mo’nin’.” In Loss: The Politics of Mourning, ed. David L. Eng and David Kazanjian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Page 74: Malcolm Gladwell, from Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Page 74: Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, by Richard Allsopp and Jeannette Allsopp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Resolution in Bearing Page 79: Wim Wenders, from an interview in DoubleTake, http:// www.doubletakemagazine.org/int/html/wenders/. Page 81: Sergei Eisenstein, from The Film Sense. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1942. Page 81: Oscar Wilde, as found in The Picture of Dorian Gray; De Profundis . New York: Modern Library, 1926. Page 85: Ruth Watson, from “Beholding the Colonial Past in Claire Denis’s Chocolat,” in Black and White in Color: African History on Screen, ed. Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2007. Page 85: Claire Denis, from “Interview: Claire Denis on 35 Shots of Rum,” by Robert Davis. Daily Plastic, March 10, 2009. Page 87: William Shakespeare, from The Tempest...