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Location
New Orleans, LA
Project Title
UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA: from Fugitive Slave Act to Zero Tolerance Policy
Fiscal Year Awarded
2022
Grant Amount
$10,000
Performing the roles of shamanistic time-travelers chronicling the hidden history of a nation that seduces its citizenry to embrace forgetting, José Torres-Tama & ArteFuturo Productions' Ensemble of Black and Brown performance poets investigate a forgotten legacy of laws from the Fugitive Slave Act (1793), to Operation Wetback (1954), to the recent Zero Tolerance Policy of 2018, and expose a U.S. narrative of official legislation strategically written to "dispossess people of color" from their inalienable constitutional rights and criminalize their liberated bodies.