“Calvente breaks new ground in this compelling interdisciplinary study. Through a combination of theory and methods, she brings to light the poetics and praxis of oral history performance.” - D. Soyini Madison (author of Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance) "In this thought-provoking book, Calvente argues for the critical role of stories in making and remaking worlds that privilege some at the expense of others. Using a compelling storyteller's subtlety and a meticulous ethnographer's eye, she offers an important contribution to communication and cultural studies that demonstrates some of the ways in which we speak our worlds-our homespaces-into tender, precarious, but decidedly realizable existence. Moving Blackness itself moves through colonial times and diasporic spaces to contextualize understandings of race/racism in the everyday and the existential."- John L. Jackson, Jr. (author of Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem)
