June 12, 2024
Patrice Rankine is the author of “Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964-2020.” Photo by Miles Johnson.
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Author’s Book Looks At How Theater Can Respond To Racial Reckonings
In Patrice Rankine’s field, he wanted to think about the tools of his discipline, which focuses on the past, and how they could be used to help to think through problems in the present. Rankine is a Professor in the Department of Classics, Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago. The murder of George Floyd in 2020 led him to think about myths and the symbolism around that murder.