With Thomas F. DeFrantz & Quran Karriem

Is everyone always automatically expected to share the concerns of people of color?

Do we all really have to pay attention to race, religion, sexuality, ethnicity?

What  constitutes “white privilege”? If I’m not interested in being part of some solution, am I really part of the problem?What if I’m a maker/audience/presenter who happens to be interested in love, or formal structure, or myth, or universal qualities of empathy?

What am I to do now?

White Privilege is the second of three works by Thomas F. DeFrantz in the Talking|Dance series, co-commissioned by the American Realness festival and Theater Magazine. These performances were conceived to be alongside the Reckoning with Racism in the American South research series at Duke University and have been performed nationally and internationally. A performative lecture by DeFrantz with live sound design and the use of a “Synthball” developed by Quran Karriem, White Privilege is a participatory piece that engages white privilege as a discourse, casting the performative space as an opportunity to enlarge care and do better.