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Racial Politics or the Politics of an Event

2007.10.29. 20:13 tolleva

The conversation with Jabari Asim about his recently published book and the N word was the 3rd event in a series relating to NWC: The Race Show at KPAC. It is only now that I have become aware of the politics of the event, thanks to a party I attended. Here is a short overview of my research on the topic.

The Context:

The NWC /N*gger, W*tba*ck Ch*nk (3 racist slurs: Nigger, Wetback, Chink for Black, Latin American, Chinese Am) by Speak Theater Arts’ African American, Latin American, Chinese American actors was supposed to be an educational ’comedy’ performed at KPAC on Sept 19 and 20, as one of the events of UIUC’s Chancellor’s ’Inclusive Illinois: One Campus Many Voices Initiative.’ Website: http://www.inclusiveillinois.uiuc.edu/

Rather than sparking a dialog, which was the alleged purpose of the play, the performance elicited angry responses from people on campus who were obviously of a different mind about the nature of educational enhancement about ’race.’ Due to the IASA conference, unfortunately I missed the play, but here are some eye-opening contributions to the ensuing resentment.

NWC at KPAC:
http://www.krannertcenter.com/performances/details.asp?elementID=21979

Speak Theater Arts homepage: http://www.speaktheaterarts.com/

Response to NWC in Griot (Literary Magazine of the African American Culture Center), October 2007, issue 47, p. 8:
http://www.odos.uiuc.edu/aacp/Vol47Issue1.pdf

The Public i (a project of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center), pp 5-6:
”NWC: The Race Play Controversy”: comments by faculty, students, members of the community at http://publici.ucimc.org/oct07.pdf

*** Response of the Asian American Studies Program at UIUC, neither endorsing nor tacitly approving of the performance yet expressing resentment about the disproportionate publicity and support given to this production by Krannert and University. They also endorse the unfolding debate and hope the ensuing controversy will be transformed into teaching moments.

*** Director of the African American Studies and Research Program charges NWC with shortsightedness and reductionism (after an overdose of racial slurs, the conclusion of the play is that after all there is only one race), stating that racialized studies programs and cultural studies hadn’t been engaged before a commitment by the University and KPAC was made to bring this ’comedy’ to campus. Along this line he blames decision makers with white liberal arrogance.

*** Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at UIUC also critiques KPAC programming decisions that point beyond bringing NWC to Krannert (the main venue of Champaign County’s opinion-shaping theater complex):

"1) the lingering residue of historical white privilege, 2) the intergenerational post-traumatic stress of unhealed trauma caused by heterosexist, misogynist, white-inspired and perpetrated forms of violence and colonialism, 3) the neo-liberal structures through which power and privileges are distributed today and into unforseeable future."

http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/ON%20SPEAK%20THEATER%20ARTS%20PRODUCTION.pdf

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