Strange Fruit: A Performance about Identity Politics

E. Patrick Johnson is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He has written and directed a number of performances at UNC-Chapel Hill, Louisiana State University, and Amherst College, and has performed for national and international audiences. He has also published essays in Text and Performance Quarterly, OBSIDIAN II, and Callaloo. His book, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, and anthology (with Mae Henderson), Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology will be published in fall 2003 by Duke University Press.