Mama, Don't You Weep

Rhaisa Williams is Assistant Professor of Theater at Princeton University and author of various essays published in journals including Transforming Anthropology and College Literature.

"Mama, Don't You Weep is a beautifully written study of how black mothers have navigated the complex web of black maternal grief as commodity and embodied experience. Exploring the critical question of what happens when one's grief is stolen, Rhaisa Williams mobilizes the tools and methods of performance studies to think through about how grief has been put to work, felt, and inhabited by black mothers." - Jennifer Nash, Duke University