From Bourgeois to Boojie

A cross-genre survey of how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class.

Vershawn Ashanti Young is a performance artist, actor, and associate professor of African American studies, English, and performance studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (Wayne State University Press, 2007) and co-editor of the forthcoming Code Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, Performance. Bridget Harris is assistant professor of African American studies and rhetoric at the University of Iowa. She studies African American literary and rhetorical traditions and race as a class performance.