Essay examines Shabu's oral history performance, suggesting it enhances understanding of minoritarian histories.
Blending the theatricality of oral history performance with the site-specificity of the historical walking tour, Aya Shabu’s performance-based tour of the section of downtown Durham, North Carolina formerly known as Black Wall Street represents an innovative approach to the presentation of minoritarian histories. This essay examines Shabu’s Black Wall Street tour, situating it within the recent resurgence of critical walking art and arguing that its sensory reconstruction of place constitutes a mode of reparative history.
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