Jasmine Mahmoud is assistant professor of Theatre History and Performance Studies, with an affiliation in art history, at the University of Washington.
From De Andrea Nichols's Mirror Casket to Damon Davis's All Hands On Deck to the lawn sculptures of Hands Up each work’s materiality disrupted the naturalization of segregated anti-Black space in St. Louis and produced embodied strategies of reclamation.
Neighborhoods United for Change frames St. Louis not just as a divided city, but also as one that yokes dispossession in North City to growth in South St. Louis, revealing how both North and South share similar goals.