"'We Wear the Mask': Three Movements on Survival, Resistance, and Activist Affect with deference to Paul Laurence Dunbar". Issue 1 (May 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alexander, Bryant Keith
• Other Names: Alexander Bryant Keith guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: International review of qualitative research. Volume 16:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 58
• Page End: 66
• Publication Date: 2023-05
• Subjects: Paul Laurence Dunbar -- masks/masking -- resistance -- activist affect -- COVID-HIV/AIDS -- affective investments -- strategic coalition; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social justice -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social justice; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 001.42
• DOI: 10.1177/19408447221114832
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1940-8447

Abstract

In this short performative piece, the performer engages a critical juxtaposition of Paul Laurence Dunbar's classic poem, "We Wear the Mask" in relation to shifting currents of COVID-19, Racism, and Black Lives Matter; using the act of masking not just as a safety precaution against COVID-19 but as strategies of passing through oppression, and surviving under threat, with de-masking as a performative act of resistance against that which most threatens our humanity.