id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_pin6u34fnvabdoisaufffrkzxq Jordana Cox The Top of Bravery by Jeremy V. Morris 2018 4 .pdf application/pdf 1621 97 62 a black boy can succeed in America with his soul The threat of the black boy as monster appeared repeatedly in Pipeline. scene transitions provided glimpses of young black Powerfully, Pipeline invited audiences to question assumptions about what constitutes a "good Blackface minstrelsy haunts American vernacular performance, from children's cartoons to sorority selfies, but in The Top of Bravery it took center Blending documentary traces of Williams's career with imagined scenes from his life, The Top of Bravery explored the ways in which Williams Morris set the play in Richmond in 1916 at the Williams, played by Morris, was preparing for a first few moments it was clear that The Top of Bravery's spectators had an uncomfortable part to play: audience, Williams did not apply makeup until the perform without makeup; yet, Williams maintained that it was only by blacking up that he could present otherwise provocative material. By the play's final scenes, when Williams's life ./cache/work_pin6u34fnvabdoisaufffrkzxq.pdf ./txt/work_pin6u34fnvabdoisaufffrkzxq.txt