Harvey Young
Encyclopedia
Harvey Young is an African American
cultural historian, theorist, and scholar.
and critical race theory
. He is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University
, where he holds appointments in African American Studies
, Theatre
, Performance Studies
, and Radio/Television/Film. He currently serves as a Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and sits on the editorial boards of "Theatre Survey" and "Theatre Topics".
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
cultural historian, theorist, and scholar.
Contributions
Harvey Young has made significant contributions in the fields of performance studiesPerformance Studies
Performance studies have been growing as an academic field since the 1960s. Performance studies believe in the social act of Doing as it takes performance itself as the object of inquiry.The process of defining it becomes a practice in performance studies itself...
and critical race theory
Critical race theory
Critical Race Theory is an academic discipline focused upon the intersection of race, law and power.Although no set of canonical doctrines or methodologies defines CRT, the movement is loosely unified by two common areas of inquiry...
. He is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
, where he holds appointments in African American Studies
African American studies
African American studies is a subset of Black studies or Africana studies. It is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans...
, Theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, Performance Studies
Performance Studies
Performance studies have been growing as an academic field since the 1960s. Performance studies believe in the social act of Doing as it takes performance itself as the object of inquiry.The process of defining it becomes a practice in performance studies itself...
, and Radio/Television/Film. He currently serves as a Vice President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and sits on the editorial boards of "Theatre Survey" and "Theatre Topics".