Books
Performing Female Blackness
My single-authored book, Performing Female Blackness (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2023), argues that performance is part of the ontology of female blackness in Canada through the examination of private and public performances that leave people read as female and Black always figuratively on stage regardless of cultural, political, or historical contexts.
Beyonce And Beyond: 2013-2016
My other single-authored book, Beyoncé And Beyond: 2013-2016 (Routledge UK, 2023), examines three years of Beyoncé’s career as a pop mega star using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. The book explores how the careful choreography of Beyoncé’s image, voice and public persona, coupled with her intelligent use of audio and visual mediums, makes her one of the most influential entertainers of the 21st century.
“Performing Female Blackness’ insightful and theoretical depth offers an elegant and absorbing exegesis on female blackness that is new, different, and profoundly relevant across multiple disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts”
- D. Soyini Madison, 2023