Performing visibility: Freaknic and the spatial politics of sexuality, race, and class in Atlanta

TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 24-46

  Thompson, Krista A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 43249142637     PISSN: 10542043     EISSN: 15314715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/dram.2007.51.4.24     Document Type: Article

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