Journal article
Mr. Charlie and Miss Ann: A Play About Power and Other Things in a College Setting
Taboo (New York, N.Y.), Vol.21(4), pp.31-50
10/01/2023
Abstract
This is a critical, auto-ethnographic, auto-fictitious ethnodrama. It is a creative script from significant selections from personal memories, observations, experiences, informal interviews and conversations, field notes, journal entries, and other artifacts, and reworked as a five-act play, and if performed, as reader's theater. It is critical1 in that it questions the dominant, normalized ways and means of a university. Here specifically, I take a critical and creative approach to detail an experience with fear-laden university-plantation-colonial-patriarchal politics. The play stars two assistant professors and two college leaders assigned to the characters of Mr. Charlie and Miss Ann. These formal titles are used as pejorative parallels to represent these individuals' whiteness, white supremacy, arrogance, and abuse of power within a university-plantation landscape. The plot further includes incidents of academic bullying, infantilization, and surveillance that resulted from untenured faculty naively assuming the protections of academic freedom and free speech. The narrative brings about questions for those in the academy whose activism is an intellectual project, and who are critical of whiteness within institutions alongside the constant threat that their "misbehavior" will result in being denied the ultimate prize... tenure.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mr. Charlie and Miss Ann: A Play About Power and Other Things in a College Setting
- Creators
- Leslie Locke
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Taboo (New York, N.Y.), Vol.21(4), pp.31-50
- ISSN
- 1080-5400
- eISSN
- 2164-7399
- Publisher
- Caddo Gap Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2023
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984458059702771
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