Ndiaye, Noémie. "Race and early modern performance culture." Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/race-and-early-modern-performance-culture. [Date accessed].

Race and early modern performance culture

Early modern theater shaped and was shaped by racial narratives

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Noémie Ndiaye
The University of Chicago

Understanding that theater was the mass media of early modern Europe offers a window into how racial categories, narratives, and performance both sustained and exposed the construction of white supremacy in its early formation.

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Race and transnational theater

The invention of white supremacy in early modernity was a transnational phenomenon, which means that it can only be fully understood through a transnational approach.

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Mini exhibition

This assignment engages students in digital research and curation by having them create and analyze their own mini exhibition.

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Syllabus

Race in early modern drama

This course asks students to read plays and masques from early modern England, Spain, and France to understand how race was crafted through perfomrace and culture.

Noémie Ndiaye

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