more law enforcement officers in schools and instead proposed more funding for mental health professionals. now, as you know, this is not the first time that tennessee republicans moved to punish representative jones. back in april, they voted to expel him, along with democratic representative justin jay pearson for calling for gun reform on the floor right after a shooting. now just this afternoon, the house republicans adjourned the special session, ending their journey to pass any gun legislation laws at all, things that are highly supported by the population in tennessee. joining our conversation, the distinguished university professor of african american and diaspora studies at vanderbilt university in nashville and author of entertaining race: performing blackness in america. welcome to you professor dyson. and errin haines is back with us. thank you for staying, errin. professor, i m fascinated. i ve always said i made it somehow into my 50s without ever knowing much about the
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orders signs by youngkin on day one of his administration as he declared virginia is now open for business. a big campaign promise of his. here he is right before we won the election in november. on day one, on day one we re going to declare virginia open for business. no lockdowns, no shutdowns, we re open for business. youngkin s win and the damage it will do is not just limited to the virginia. republicans will declare their priority open for business for covid. i m joined by michael dyson, author of entertaining race, performing blackness in america and tim wise, author of dispatches from the race war. thank you both for being here. i am interested and i ll start with you on this, tim. is this descent of the american right into essentially the death cult world. you know, if you put up the list of the states with the highest and lowest death rates per 100,000 people, it s all blue
race: performing blackness in america. michael, so good to see you. congratulations. i ve lost count of your books. how many are we at now? we are at 24. oh, my gosh. i have an announcement, i just moved to vanderbilt university so i m teaching at vanderbilt now as well. congratulations. i love that campus. congratulations. nashville is a great place. let s talk about this, i mean, giant, giant in so many levels. i mean, i think viola davis is among those who kind of said it best, you know, this is a big one. and oprah saying the great eggs of the great trees has fallen. i mean, so many actors from denzel washington, tyler perry, whoopi goldberg, halle berry, they explain how impactful sidney poitier was on and off the screen. he led the way on so much, didn t he? he sure did. and when you think about his acting, look at those thes beans of the thirs order, the magnitude of stars that have
game. he had perspective, he knew exactly where he was, he understood where america and where really the world was. i mean, he grew up in the bahamas but he confronted things in america that he had not encountered while in the bahamas, but it s amazing that he had the perspective of placement, of his place in history and what it meant to make certain choices about those roles and what kind of impact it would make. no, that s a great point. and he was, as you said, quite conscious about that. he said not at this stage of the game, he said i d like to play some criminals, i d like to play some bad boys, i d like to play people who are nuanced and complicated, and black people should be allowed to do that, but at that period of time he knew he couldn t. yeah. he bore what james baldwin termed the burden of representation and that burden meant that he had to be ever conscious of how the race would be read because of his performance.
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