Asst. Prof. Tina Post became intrigued with how the gesture of expressionlessness operated in the 20th-century Black performances across literature, visual and performance art, film, theater, dance, ...

“83% of Gen Z prefer face to face communication,” as recent research told us, yet enter a schoolroom or office and you may be greeted with the now famous “Gen Z stare” that vacant, deadpan expression ...

Asst. Prof. Tina Post’s scholarship delves into racial performativity, especially the ways that Black Americans present their racial identity. For her distinctive perspectives about blackness and ...

Introduction: Some type of way -- 1. Subjectivity and self-specimenization -- 2. Minimalism and the aesthetics of Black threat -- 3. The opacity gradient -- 4. Excess and absence (or, The Negro ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Emilia Mickevicius, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) Deadpan is not so much a ...