By Anita Gonzalez, Professor of Theatre and Drama University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Are we building a wall? My friends and associates wonder what will be accomplished by cordoning off good will between us. The xenophobic anxiety of our current administration and its electorate, stands in stark opposition to a lived history of collaboration. One…
Author: Anita L Gonzalez
Anita Gonzalez is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She has authored two books Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality (2010) and Jarocho’s Soul (2005) that reveal the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexico. She also co-edited the volume Black Performance Theory (Duke University Press 2014). Her essays about multi-cultural and international performance appear in several edited collections including Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre (George-Graves), British Dance: Black Routes (Adair and Burt), The Community Performance Reader (Kuppers), Festive Devils (Riggio, Segura, and Vignola) and Latinas On Stage (Arrizón and Manzor). She has published articles in Theatre Research International, Radical History Review, Modern Drama, Performance Research International, and Dance Research Journal.