Word: persecutors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These themes of black self-hatred appear multiple times in the exhibit, yet never establishing a clear victim and persecutor. This is one of the central strengths of the exhibit. While it tackles such complex and political topics as black assimilation, it never devolves into a narrative of either blame or exoneration. Rather, Walker explores the inter-connection between white cruelty and black mimicry of whites, between white fetishistic desire of the black female and black female self-annihilation. The ingenuity of Walker's work is that, not only does she represent these cultural phenomena, but she examines how they...
...Labor's Lost. Michael Efron is almost perfect as Berowne, and he makes the character's alternate moods of ironic detachment and sincere (for him) emotion believable. Efron gives a smooth seductive performance reminiscent of the late great John Ducey '91. As Rosaline, Berowne's sometime lover, sometime persecutor. Emily Gardiner is a appropriately tough and saucy. Gardiner does not let her character slip into sentimentalism; this consistency is vital to making Rosaline's final actions understandable...
...elections for the student government's top four positions will take place. Political speeches will be given by experienced council members dressed in their finest semi-formal attire. They will cleverly combine references to pop culture, jokes originally written for Jay Leno and attacks on the U.C.'s dauntless persecutor (The Crimson). The winners, as always, will be those candidates whose speeches sound remotely like what normal people actually say to one another...