ERIC Number: EJ1292376
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
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ISSN: ISSN-1356-9783
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Doing White Differently? Playback Theatre and Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Barolsky, Kathy
Research in Drama Education, v26 n2 p224-239 2021
This article explores how whiteness is enacted and negotiated from the perspective of a conductor in a Playback Theatre performance (PT). The article addresses how PT provides a stage for exercising opportunities for "doing white differently" in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that "Doing white differently" takes place by recognising a distinction between the subjectivity of white individuals and the historic, colonial representations of whiteness in South Africa. Drawing on second-wave critical whiteness studies and agential realism, this article discusses the author's attempt to engage in a diffractive moment related to racial identities during a performance for university students.
Descriptors: Social Change, Racial Segregation, Whites, Theater Arts, Foreign Policy, History, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries, Racial Identification, College Students, Self Concept, Ethnography, Blacks, Personal Autonomy, Administrator Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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